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1st primary longest. Length 9| inches; alar breadth 22 

 inches. 



G. Americanus, Linn. ! 



v.s.p. Bill and legs pale flesh colour ; the former black to- 

 wards the tip ; irides hazel. 



Dorsal aspect. Prevailing tint a light coloured brown or fawn 

 colour, intersected on the crown of the head by a narrow black 

 streak; feathers of the occiput minutely powdered with light 

 fawn ; those of the neck with a black bar tipped with cream co- 

 lour; scapulars brown, distal halves of their outer vanes black, 

 with cream coloured edges and barred below the surface ; small 

 wing coverts brown, minutely barred and powdered with black ; 

 greater wing coverts brown, barred and speckled with black ; a 

 well defined bar towards their extremities, succeeded by a cream 

 coloured tip ; tail rounded, lateral feather and quill half of tbe 

 outer vane of 2nd feather brownish black ; the remainder of the 

 outer vanes and whole inner vanes of 2nd, and whole of the 3rd 

 white ; centre feathers of the prevailing dorsal tint with 10 to 11 

 bars of black, and speckled with the same colour in the interme- 

 diate spaces; wings brown ; the 5 first primaries with a white bar 

 across the outer and inner vanes, not obsolete on the outer vanes 

 of the 1st. 



Ventral aspect. A white spot on the throat ; breast and chin 

 ferrugineous, barred with black ; belly and vent pale ferruginous, 

 barred with dusky. 



Bill with bristles projecting about 4 lines beyond the extrem- 

 ity of the bill ; legs longer than the C. Virginianus ; 1 inch, 3 

 lines from the knee to the tarsus ; middle toe with claw as long 

 as the tarsi, inner edge of the claw pectinate. Length 10^ inches ; 

 alar breadth 18 inches. 3rd primary longest; 2nd and 4th equal ; 

 1st a little longer than the 5tli. 



Described from a specimen in the museum of the Natural His- 

 tory Society of Montreal. 



This is a Mexican species, which in its wandering contrived to 

 reach this neighbourhood. It was shot on the mountain by the 

 late Mr. Broome, who held for many years the situation of taxi- 

 dermist to the Natural History Society. It was identified by Mr. 

 Cassin of Philadelphia, as a Mexican species, under the above 

 designation. See appendix. 



