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NORTH iUlERICAN BIRDS. 



easily accustomed to confiuement, and in a few days will become quite tame. 

 When slightly wounded and captured, they at first make a sturdy resistance, 

 and bite quite severely. They are much attached to their young, and when 

 approached evince great anxiety, the female thrusting herself forward to 

 divert attention by her outcries and her simulated lameness. 



The eggs of tiiis species are of a roundeil-oval shape, and have a dull- 

 white ground, sjiotted with dots and blotches of a wine-colored brown. 

 These usually are larger thau in the other species, and are mostly congre- 

 gated about the larger end, and measure .98 of an inch in length by .SO iu 

 breadth. 



Pipilo erythrophthalmus, var alleni, Coues. 



■WHITE-EYED CHEWINK ; FLORIDA CHEWINK. 



Pipilo alkni, VoUES, Americau JSaturalist, V, Aug. 1871, 366. 



Sp. Guar. Similar to erythrophthalmus, but differing in tlie following respects : 

 White spaces on wings and tail much restricted, those on inner webs of lateral tail-feathers 

 only .50 to .75 long. Size very nuieh smaller, except the bill, which is absolutely larger. 

 Iris white. 



^. (55,267, Dummits's Grove, Florida, March, 1869.) Length, 7.75 ; wing, 3.00 ; tail, 

 3.75 ; bill from nostrU, .38 ; tarsus, .97. 



9- (55,271, same locality and date.) Wing, 3.00; tail, 3.50; bill from nostril, .37; 

 tarsus, .91. White on primaries almost absent. 



This interesting variety of Pipilo eri/(hrophthahnu-^ was found in Florida, 

 in the spring of 1869, by ilr. C. J. Maynard, and probalily represents the 

 species as resident in that State. It is considerably smaller than the average 

 (length, 7.75 ; e.xtent, 10.00 ; wing, 3.00 ; tarsus, .95), and has very apprecia- 

 bly less white on the tail The outer web of outer feather is only narrowly 



edged with white, in- 

 stead of being entire- 

 ly so to the shaft 

 (except iu one speci- 

 men), and the termi- 

 nal white tip, con- 

 fined to the inner 

 web, is only from .50 

 to .75 of an inch long, 

 instead of 1.25 to 



2135, P,p,toer„„rop„alnu,s 24T. var. ^^„,. J -^5^ ^^ ^^^^^ jj^^ 



amount on the second feather of northern specimens, as shown in the 

 accompanying figures. There is apparently a greater tendency to dusky 

 streaks and specks in the rufous of the side of the breast or in the adjacent 

 white. Resident specimens from Georgia are intermediate in size and color 

 between the northern and Florida races. 



