216 AMPELID^. 



Rep. Zool. Expl. W. \mth Mm: p. 229 (1875) ; Laivr. Bull. U.S. 

 Nat. Mm. no. 4, p. 18 (1876) ; Cones, B. Color. Vail. p. 470 (1874); 

 Ridgiu. Bull. U.H. Nat. Mus. no. 21, p. 30 (1881) ; Cones, Check- 

 list, p. 43 (1882) ; Sah. Sf Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 215 

 (1883) ; B.C. U. List Brit. B. p. 40 (1883) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. 

 B. p. 327 (1884). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, the lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts dove-coloiired grey ; scapulars and wing- 

 coverts like the back, the latter rather darker, the greater coverts 

 with ashy bases ; bastard-wing brown ; primary-coverts blackish, 

 externall}' washed with slaty grey ; quills blackish, externally slatj' 

 grey, hoary on the primaries ; the secondaries with wax-like red 

 appendages to the ends of the feathers, the innermost secondaries 

 drab ; tail-feathers slaty grey, broadly tipped with yeUow, before 

 which is a broad black subterminal shade; head much crested, more 

 rufescent drab-brown, especially towards the forehead ; a frontal 

 band of black, enclosing the lores, feathers round the eye, and ex- 

 tending behind the latter along the sides of the crown to the occiput ; 

 this black line surmounted by a narrow line of whitish, separating 

 the crown from the black frontal band ; sides of face and ear-coverts 

 clearer rufous-brown, fading off into the drab-brown colour of the 

 sides of the neck ; along the fore part of the cheeks a whitish 

 streak ; chin black, extending in a dusky blackish shade on the upper 

 throat ; remainder of throat and breast as weU as the sides of body 

 rufescent drab-brown ; abdomen and lower flanks olive-yeUow, paler 

 in the centre of the abdomen ; under tail-coverts white ; thighs ashy ; 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts ashy, with dusky bases to those 

 near the edge of the wing ; quills dusky below, ashy along the 

 inner web : "bill plumbeous black, sometimes paler at base below; 

 feet black" (Cones). Total length 6"3 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 

 3-95, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-65. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male, but with a smaller 

 crest. Total length 6-4 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 3-75, tail 2-25, 

 tarsus 0-7. 



Hah. North America, ranging into Central America in winter ; 

 Cuba ; Jamaica. An accidental visitor to Great Britain. 



a, h. Ad. sk. Niagara Falls. Gould Collection. 



c. 2 ad. sk. 49th Parallel. N. A. Bound. Commission. 



d, e. 5 ad. sk. Fort Dufferiu, Manitoba. N. A. Boimd. Commission. 

 f, (J, h. Ad. sk. British Columbia. J. K. Lord, Esq. [CI. 



V, k. d; f- 2 ad. sk. West side of Rocky J. K. Lord, Esq. [P.]. 



Mountains. 



m. Ad. sk. Michigan. Prof. Steere [P.]. 



n. 2 ad. ; o. $ juv. Mackinac, Wisconsin, Sclater Collection. 



sk. ■ Sept. (P. L. S.). 



2}. Ad. sk. Mexico. Gould Collection. 



q. Ad. sk. Guatemala. Gould Collection, 



r. Ad. sk. Choctum, Vera Paz Sclater Collection. 



(Salvin). 



