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we were there, to cheer our course. This species is sometimes seen 

 in company with the P. minutus, Town., and Regulus calendula, 

 which at this time are roving in large and busy flocks along the 

 small streams. It is probably found also in the mountains of California. 



Fringilla Blandingiana.\ 



Male. Above olive green tinged with cinereous and brown. Crown 

 i - ufous red ; front, line over the eye, ears, and breast cinereous ; throat 

 pure white ; a white line also running from the base of the lower 

 mandible to the neck, below wliich is a line of blackish tipped with 

 cinereous. Sides brownish ; belly and veDt white ; wings and tail 

 brown ; wing coverts, margins of the primaries and secondaries and 

 tail feathers, especially near the base, bright yellowish green ; tail be- 

 neath pale green. Length six and a quarter inches. Feet and legs 

 stout, brown ; tarsus and middle toe, with the nail, seven-eighths of an 

 inch in length ; hind toe nail longer than the toe ; bill above dark 

 brown, beneath paler. 



Of this new and singujarly marked species I procured a single 

 specimen only, in September, on the bank of a small stream in the 

 Eocky Mountains, about half way between New Mexico and the Col- 

 orado of the west. It kept in low bushes in company with the F. 

 guttata, Nutt., and F. graminea, occasionally uttering a single chip. 

 The throat and breast of this species very much resemble those of the 

 F. Pennsylvanica. 



Lophortyx* Gambelii, Nutt. 



Cinereous-brown above ; head bright rufous ; crest of six black 

 feathers one and three-fourths inches long, wide at the tips and curv- 

 ing forwards ; throat black, banded by a line of white ; front of long 

 grayish and black bristly feathers, with a baud of white across them 

 near their tips, which extends over the eye to the back of the head; 

 feathers of the neck and upper part of the back small, cinereous, each 

 with a central streak of dark rufous; upper part of the breast and 

 shoulders cinereous; lower part of the breast cream colored; middle 

 of the belly black; flanks dark rufous ; each feather with a large lan- 

 ceolate central spot of pure white ; tertiaries edged on their upper 

 margins with yellowish white; tail rounded, cinereous blue; under 

 coverts with dark brown spots. Length a little over ten inches. 

 Wings four and a half; fourth quill longest: second and seventh 

 equal. Bill black. Feet and legs dull bluish. Tarsus one and a 

 quarter inches. Tail four and a half. 



We met with small flocks of this handsome species some distance 

 west of California, in the month of November, inhabiting the most 



-j- In honour of Wm. Blanding, M.D., of Philadelphia. 



