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sides, under surface of body, under and upper tail coverts, rump, and posterior 

 portion of back, bright yellow ; sides under the wings greenish yellow. Tips 

 and bases of secondary wing coverts white, forming along the tips a defined 

 stripe, the white on the base being covered by the primary coverts ; exterior 

 edge of tips of tertiary quills white ; tips of exterior tail feathers slightly tipped 

 with dull white. Bill black ; base of lower mandible bluish lead. Feet very 

 dark slate. 



Total length 8* ; tip to tip llf ; wing from carpal joint 4 ; tail 3! inches. 



Locality. Western New Leon and Coahuila; April, 1853. 



Obs. Plentiful, common. Song varied and highly melodious. An immature 

 specimen of this species has the black on the head and neck maculated with olive ; 

 wings, central tail feathers and tips dark ferruginous, and the yellow substituted 

 by a light olive, which is darkest on the rump and lightest on the abdomen, 

 where it is dull yellow. 



I have named this handsome bird as a slight token of my high regard for 

 Major General Winfield Scott, Commander in Chief of the IT. S. Army. 



3. SlRUTHUS ATRIMENTALIS. 



Male. Small ; bill short, conic ; wing short, rounded, third and fourth prima- 

 ries longest and nearly equal ; tail long, graduated : legs slender. 



Color. Chin, lores and narrow frontal band black. Head above and neck, 

 rump and entire under parts cinereous, palest and nearly white on the abdomen. 

 Back ferruginous, each feather with a dark central line ; quills and tail feathers 

 brownish black, both edged externally with white. Bill light brownish red ; 

 feet dark ; iris dark brown. 



Total length 5i ; wings 2J ; wings from tip to tip 7! ; tail 3 inches. 



Locality. Aqua Nueva, State of Coahuila; May, 1853. 



The Report of the Publication Committee for 1853 was read and 

 adopted. 



ELECTION. 



John Vaughan Merrick, Esq., and John J. Vanderkemp, M. D., of 

 Philadelphia, were elected Members, and Prof. Daniel Kirkwood, of 

 Newark, Delaware, and Waldo J. Burnett, M. D., of Boston, Mass., 

 were elected Correspondents. 



