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U. S. p. R. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT. 



List of specimens. 



Catal lAge 



No. 



4217 

 4218 

 8142 

 3932 

 6966 

 44T8 

 4562 

 4948 

 8141 

 10191 

 4902 



Locality. 



When collected. 



Whence obtained. 



Orig. 



No. 



Collected by — ', Length. 



San Fraocieco, Cal..J Winter 1853-4 K. D. Cutts. 

 do ' do .do 



StreU-h 

 of wings. 



Wing. 



Presidio, Cal ! 



California 



Santa Clara, Cal Oct. 29,1855 



do do 



Lt. Trowbridge. 

 Dr. Heermann.. 



Dr. Cooper 



, do 



13 



13 



San JoEc, Cal. 



do 



Sacramento valley. 



FortTejon, Cal 



San Diego, Cal 



A. J Grayson. 

 do 



Lt. Williamson 

 J. X. de Vesey.. 

 Dr.J.F Hammond 



Dr. Heermann . 



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12.25 12.62 



HARPORHYNCHUS LECONTII, Bo nap. 



Toxostoma Ucontii, L.4wr. Ann. N. Y. Lye. V, Sept. 1851, 109. (Fort Yuma.) 

 tIarporhyncUus kcuntii, Bonap. Coraptes Ilendua, XXVIII, 1854, 57 -, Notes Orn. Delattre, 39. 



Sp. Cii. — Bill much curved. Second quill about equal to the tenth ; exposed portion of the first more than half tlie longest ; 

 outer tail feather an inch shortest. General color above light grayish ash, beneath much paler; the chin and throat above 

 almost white ; the sides behind brownish yellow or pale rusty yellow ash, of which color is the crissum and anal region. Tail 

 feathers rather dark brown on the under surface, lighter above ; the outer edges and tips of exterior ones obscurely paler. 

 Quills nearly like the back. 



Ha . — Fori Yuma, California. 



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This species in form, shape, and curvature of hill and general appearance, is so much like 



the H. redivivus as to render it extremely likely that it will prove only one of those lio;ht 

 races or varieties so often met with in birds of the lower Gila river. The size is smaller, but this 



might be merely the result of its more southern habitat. The colors above are much lighter than 



in H. redivivus. The contrast between the body of the tail feathers and their obsoletely lighter 



edges is rather more decided than in the other species. The second quill is longer, and the first 



is fully half the longest instead of less than half. The bill in curvature and general shape is 



exactly like that of H. redivivus. 



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