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a chestnut- coronal patch, more or less obscured by ashy-grey tips to 

 the feathers ; lores, base of cheeks, feathers below the eye, and a 

 rin^ round the latter white ; sides of face, cheeks, and ear-coverts 

 clear ashy grey, as also the sides of the neck and sides of breast ; 

 chin white, inclining to yellow on the throat and widening into a 

 broad patch of brighter yellow on the fore neck; centre of breast 

 and abdomen white, the sides of the body pale ashy, washed with 

 yellow on the lower flanks ; under tail-coverts bright yeUow, the 

 long ones white at the ends ; thighs ashy ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries white, the latter slightly washed with ashy brown : quills 

 dusky below, ashy whitish along the edge of the inner web. Total 

 length 4-5 inches,"^ culmen 0-4, wing 2-5, tail 2, tarsus 0-65. (Mus. 

 Salvin and Godman.) 



Adult femxde. Duller in colour than the male, the chestnut patch 

 on the head somewhat more obscured by the ashy tips to the feathers ; 

 the whole shade of the ash-colour of the upper parts more brownish 

 ash than in the male ; the yellow on the fore neck not so bright or 

 extensive, and the under tail-coverts much paler yellow. Total 

 length 4-3 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-25, tail 1-75, tarsus 0-7. 

 {Mus. Salvin and Godman.) 



Hah. Southern Eocky-Mountain region; north to Colorado, 

 Nevada, and Utah at least {Coues). 



9. HelminthopMla lucise. 



Helminthophaga lucise, Cooper, Proc. Calif. Acad. 1862, p. 120; 

 Baird, Revieio Amer. B. p. 178 (18G5) ; Cnies, Ibis, 1866, p. 260 ; 

 Elliot, Ne%v Sf Unflg. B. N. Amer. pi. 5 (1869) ; Cooi)er, B. Calif. 

 p. 84 (1870) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 94 (1872) ; Baird, 

 Breiver, ^ Bidijw. Hist. N. Amer. B. i. p. 200, pi. 2. fig. 9, iii. App. 

 p. 504 (1874) ; Hensh. List B. Ariz. p. 156 (1875) ; id. Rep. Zool. 

 Expl. W. 100)!/j Merid. p. 190 (1876) ; Cones, B. Color. Vail. p. 219 

 (1878); Ridgiv. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, p. 16 (1881) ; Coues, 

 Check-list, p. 35 (1882). 

 Mniotilta luciee, Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 239, no. 3426 (1869). 

 Helminthopbila lucise, Ridgiv. Btdl. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii. p. 54 (1882) ; 

 Coues, Keg N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 294 (1884). 

 Adult female (Fort Whipple, Arizona, May 17; E. Coues). 

 General colour above light ashy grey ; lesser wing-coverts like the 

 back ; median and greater coverts dusky, externally brownish ash- 

 colour ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts dusky brown, the latter 

 narrowly edged with ashy grey ; quills dusky brown, edged with 

 brownish ashy, more broadly on the secondaries ; upper tail-coverts 

 bright chestnut or bay : tail-feathers dark brown, edged with ashy, 

 the outer feather edged with white along the inner web, increasing 

 to a large white patch towards the end, the penultimate feather 

 with a narrow fringe of white along its inner web ; head light 

 ashy grey like the back, with a central patch of deep chestnut 

 on the crown, more or less obscured by ashy-grey tips to the 

 feathers ; lores and feathers around and below the eye duU white ; 

 ear-coverts and sides of neck light ashy grey like the head and 

 back ; cheeks and under surface of body duU white, with an Isabel- 



