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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



this involving more than half of the outer feather, or nearly the 

 whole of its exposed portion. 



Young birds differ in having the upper plumage much duller and 

 tinged with ochraceous ; the feathers, especially of head and rump, 

 waved (n|pst finely on the head) with dusky, the jugulum and breast 

 similarly marked. The tips of the greater wing coverts are pale 

 ochraceous, and, like the lesser, are waved with dusky ; the black 

 cheek stripe is obsolete in front of the eye, excepting a spot at its 

 anterior canthus ; the bill and legs are paler. 



The difference between this species and its American allies will 

 be pointed out farther on. It appears to be very closely related to 

 the L. meridionalis of Europe (Temminck, Man. I, 1820, 143; 

 Degland, Ois. Eur. I, 1849, 384; Bree, Birds Europe, I, 1859, 

 159, plate, etc.) ; but judging from Degland's description, the latter 

 differs principally in the vinaceous or rosy tinge of the under parts, 

 and in the rectrices being entirely black at the base. The eye stripe, 

 with its paler upper border anteriorly, and the white markings of 

 the wing appear to be much the same. The length of vieridionalis 

 (ten inches) is considerably greater. 



Specimens examined, ten. 



Collurio elegans. 



Laniuf! elegans, Sw. F. B. A. II, 1831, 122.— Ndttall, Man. 1, 1840, 287. 

 — Cassin, Pr. A. N. Sc. 1857, 213.— Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 

 327. — CoUyrlo elegans, Baikd, Birds N. Am. 1858, xxxv. 



Hah. Califoruia ? 



. Third quill longest ; then 4th and 5th ; 2d between 5th and 6th ; 1st about 

 half the longest. Bill lengthened and very powerful, as large and strong as 

 that of L. horealis. 



Upper parts dark plumbeous-ash (very much as in L. ludovicianus) ; darkest 

 on head, a little paler perhaps on the lower back and rump (very slightly and 

 almost inappreciably, however) ; the forehead as dark as, or even darker than 

 the vertex ; the longer scapulars quite white at ends. Beneath bluish-white, 

 quite pure on throat and sides of neck, middle of belly, and crissum ; the 

 sides of body and the front of breast decidedly bluish ; the axillars, how- 

 ever, with their outer webs quite white, their inner more ashy ; the lesser 



