354 TIMELIIDiE. 



La Giive de la Caroliue, appelee Le Muqiieur, D'Aub. PI. Eiil. iv. 



pi. 645. 

 Or]ilieus rufus, Sxvaiiis. Faun. Bor.-Am., Birds, p. ISO (1831) ; Auduh. 



B. Amer. 8vo, iii. p. 9, pi. 141 (1839). 

 Orpbea rufa, Goidd, R Z. S. 1834, p. 15. 

 Miiiuis rufus, Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. Sf N. Amer. p. 18 (1838)* ; 



Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 221 (1847) ; Neuwied, J. f. 0. 1858, p. 180 ; 



Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 203, no. 3851 (18U9) 

 Toxostoma rufura. Cab. Arch.f. Nahirg. 1847, Bd. i. p. 207. 

 Toxostduia rufus, Bp. C'onsp. i. p. 277 (1850). 

 Harporbynchus rufus, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 82 (1850); Baird, 



B. N. 'Amer. p. 353 (1858) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 340 ; id. Cat. 



A7)wr. B. p. 8 (1862); Baird, Bevieiv Amer. B. p. 44 (1864) ; 



Allen, Bull. Mus. Coiyip. Zovl.m. p. 173 (1872); Coues, Key N. 



Amer. B. p. 75 (1872) ; Mayn. B. Florida, p. 21 (1872) ; Coues, 



Am. Nat. vii. p. 326, fig. 65 (1873) ; id. B. K- West, p. 9 (1874) ; 



Baird, Brewer, iSr Itidqiv. Hist. N. Amer. B. i. p. 37 (1874) ; Ilensh. 



Zool. Expl. W. \QOth Mer. p. 154 (1876) ; Coues, B. Color. Vail. 



p. 61 (1878) ; Bidfiw. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, p. 12 (1881). 

 Harporbynchus rufus, var. longicauda, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 353 



(1858) ; Bidqui. Bidl. Essex Inst. v. p. 179 (1873) ; Baird, Brewer, 



&f Ridgic. Hist. N Am. B. i. p. 36 (1874). 

 Ilarporbyucbus longicauda, Steph. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr. 1870, 1871, 



p. 464. 

 Toxostoma rufa, Bruhin, Zool. Gart. 1871, p. 15. 

 Antimimus rufus, Siindev. Av. Meth. Tent. p. 13 (1872). 



Adult. Geueral colour above bright rufous or bay, duller on the 

 head and mantle, the frontal feathers rather more ashy brown ; 

 "wing-coverts like the back, the median and greater coverts tipped 

 ■«ith ochraceous buff, before -which is a narrow subterminal bar of 

 black ; bastard wing-feathers dull reddish brown, edged with white ; 

 primary-coverts rufous, with dusky tips ; quills dusky brown, ex- 

 ternally bright rufous, the secondaries not so bright and more like 

 the back, with very narrow pale fulvous tips ; tail-feathers rufous, 

 the outer ones paler and inclining to fulvous at their tips ; lores 

 ashy fulvous, witli a line of ashy feathers at the base of the forehead, 

 slightly mottled with tiny dark-brown centres ; feathers below the 

 eye dull whitish; car-coverts dark brown, mottled with white bases 

 to the feathers; cheeks and throat white, the latter tinged with 

 ochraceous buff, and separated from the cheeks by a moustachial 

 line of dark-brown spots ; fore neck and under surface of body light 

 ochraceous buff, whiter on the abdomen, which is unspotted ; the 

 fore neck and sides of bodj' ornamented, with triangular spots of 

 brown, more longitudinal on the flanks, and scarcely visible on the 

 thighs and under tail-coverts, which are rather richer ochraceous buff; 

 the spots on (he sides of the neck larger and more rufous ; axil- 

 laries and under wing-coverts uniform ochraceous buff, the edge of 

 the wing whiter ; quills dark brown below, rufous along the inner 



* For adilitioiial references to the present species, ef. Coues, B. Co-or. Vail. 

 p. 61. 



