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N. Y. II, 28, pi. xii, f. 27, 1844. Braclujolus 2>"Uistris amcriainus, BoxAr. Coiisp. 

 Av. p. 51, 1849. Brachi/ottis cassini, Brkwek, Pr. Boston Soc. N. H. — Nf.wb. 

 P. K. Rep't, VI, IV, 76. — Heeum. do. VII, 34, IS.i". — Cassin (in BAinn) Birds K. 

 Am. 1858, 54. —Coop. & Suckl. P. K. Itcp't, .\1I, ii, 155, 1860. — Coues, P. A. 

 N. S. (Prod. Orn. Ariz.) 1866, 14. — Gr.AY, Hand List, I, 51, 1S69. Brachyolus 

 galojxiijoetisis, Goui.D, P. Z. S. 1837, 10. Otiis ga'ojiagocnsis, Dai'.w. Zool. Bi-ag. pt. 

 iii, p. 32, pi. iii. — Gkay, Geu. fol. sp. 3 ; List Birds Brit. Mus. 108. — Bo.vap. 

 Consp. 51. Asia galopar/ocnsi.% Stiiickl. Orn. Syn. I, 1855, 211. 



Sp. CiiAU. Adult. Ground-color of the head, nock, Ijadc, scapiilar,', rump, and lower 

 parts, pale ochraceous ; each feather (except on the rump) with a medial longitudinal 

 stripe of blackish-brown, — these broadest on the scapulars; on the back, nape, occiput, and 

 jugidum, the two colors about equal ; on the lower parts, the stripes grow narrower pos- 

 teriorly, those on the abdomen and sides being in the form of narrow lines. The flanks, 

 legs, anal region, and lower tail-coverts are always perfectly immaculate ; the legs most 

 deeply ochraceous, the lower tail-coverts nearly 

 pure white. The rump has obsolete crescentic 

 mark.s of brownish. Tlie wings are variegated 

 with the general dusky and ochraceous tints, but 

 the markings are more irregular ; the yellowish 

 in form of indentations or confluent spoti;, ap- 

 proaching the shafts from the edge, — broadest 

 on the outer webs. Secondaries crossed by 

 about five bands of ochraceous, the last terminal ; 

 primary coverts plain blackish-brown, with one 

 or two poorly defined transverse series of ochra- 

 ceous spots on the basal portion. Primaries 

 ochraceous on the basal two-thirds, the terminal 

 portion clear dark brown, the tips (broadly) 

 pale brownish-yeUowisli, this becoming obsolete on the longest; tlie duskv extends 

 toward the bases, in three to five irregularly transverse series of quadrate spots on the 

 outer webs, leaving, however, a large basal area of plain ochraceous, — this some- 

 what more whiti.sh anteriorly. The ground-color of the tail is ochraceous, — this be- 

 coming whiti.sh exteriorly and terminally, — crossed by five broad band.s (about equal- 

 ling the ochraceous, but becoming narrower toward outer feathers) of blackish-brown ; on 

 the middle feathers, the ochraceous spots enclose smaller, central transverse spots of 

 blackish ; the terminal ochraceous band is broadest. 



Eyebrows, lores, chin, and throat soiled wliite, the loral bristles with black shafts ; 

 face dingy ochraceous-white, feathers with darker shafts; eye broadly encircled with 



black. Post-orbital circle mi- 

 nutely speckled with pale ochra- 

 ceous and blackish, except im- 

 mediately behind the ear, where 

 for about an inch it is uniform 

 dusky. 



Lining of the wing immaculate 

 delicate yellowish- white; ter- 

 minal half of under primary 

 coverts clear blackish-brown ; 

 0IU3 bruchyotus. yj^^p^ g,jj.f.j^gp gf. p,.i„,aries plain 



delicate ochraceous-white ; ends, and one or two very broad anterior bands, dusky. 



$ (906, Carlisle, Penn.). Wing-formula, 2-1,3. Wing, ll.SO ; tail, o.SO ; cuhnen, 

 GO; tar.«us, 1.75; middle toe, 1.20. 



Ohtx brnrhyotus. 



