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SINGING BIRDS— OSCINES. 



ders and lesser wing coverts of a bright crimson or vermilion-red. 

 ish-yellow, and usually paler towards the tips. 



Middle coverts brown- 



Femeile. Brown above ; the leathers streaked with rutbus-browu and yellowish ; be- 

 neath wliite, streaked with Iji-own. Fore part of throat, superciliary, and median stripe 

 strongly tinged with brownish-yellow. Length of male, 9.00 ; extent, 15.50 ; wing, 5.00 ; 



Female. 



tail, 4.15. Female, length, 8.25; extent, 12.00; wing, 4.00. Iris brown; bill and feet 

 black. 



Hub. United States, ii-om the Atlantic to the Pacific. 



According to Baird, many .specimens of red-wings from tliis coast are 

 undistinguisliable from the Atlantic bird. All those I collected and saw in 

 the Colorado Valley, and near San Diego, as well as along the coast at Santa 

 Barbara, and many at Sauta Cruz, retained the yellow edging of the lesser 

 wing coverts throughout spring, while north of the Columbia River we 

 found only tliis species. Whether the difference is specific or only an im- 

 perfectly developed state of the A. guhcnudor, has been t|uestioned, but 



