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Adult male. General colour above ashy brown ; wing-coverts dull 

 crimson, more or less obscured by the ashy-brown margins and 

 dusky tips to the feathers ; the outer lesser wing-coverts brighter 

 crimson, like the edge of the wing ; the inner secondaries ashy brown 

 like the back, with only a mesial tinge of dull crimson ; upper tail- 

 coverts pale ashy, with crimson bases : tail-feathers deep crimson or 

 maroon, becoming dusky towards the ends of the feathers; crown 

 of head ashy like the back, mottled with crimson centres to the 

 feathers, the long crest-feathers deep crimson with blackish centres ; 

 sides of face, ear-coverts, and sides of neck dull ashy, washed here 

 and there slightly with crimson ; feathers round the eye and lores, 

 as well as the base of the cheeks, crimson ; throat and breast fine 

 crimson, the latter slightly obscured with ashy margins to the 

 feathers ; the abdomen slightly paler crimson and mixed with white ; 

 the under tail-coverts crimson with pale ashy margins ; thighs 

 crimson ; sides of breast and flanks pale ashy ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries fine crimson ; quills dusky below, pale crimson along 

 the inner webs: "bill yellowish" (Cooper). Total length 7'75 

 inches, culmen 0*65, wing 3*6, tail 3-9, tarsus 0'9. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 dull ashy brown with a slight ochreous tinge ; the long crest- 

 feathers blackish, or dark crimson with blackish centres : lesser and 

 median wing-coverts dull ashy with dark crimson centres ; bastard- 

 wing and greater coverts dusky brown, externally ashy, paler at 

 tips ; primary-coverts and quills dusky, with ashy margins, the 

 secondaries with concealed crimson near the bases, the primary- 

 coverts and primaries externally washed with crimson towards the 

 base ; tail-feathers blackish brown, slightly edged with ashy, with 

 more or less of a concealed shade of dark crimson, increasing in 

 extent towards the outer feathers ; ear-coverts, sides of face, and 

 sides of neck dull ashy ; feathers in front of the eye, lores, and fore 

 part of cheeks dusky blackish ; the base of the forehead with a slight 

 wash of crimson ; chin whitish, slightly mottled with dusky ; throat, 

 breast, and sides of the body dull ashy, washed with ochreous ; the 

 lower breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts clearer ochreous buff; 

 thighs ochreous, washed with crimson ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries light crimson ; quills dusky below, crimson along the 

 inner web. Total length 7'5 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 3-6, tail 

 3'85, tarsus Ok5. 



Hub. Same as that of the genus. 



a. 5 a d. sk. California. 



b. $ ad. sk. Tuczon, Arizona, Feb. 2, 1884 (E. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



W. Nelson ; Sm. no. 98935 ). [P.]. 



c. <$ ad. sk. Tuczon, Arizona, May 28 (H. W. U. S. Nat. Museum 



Nelson ; Sm. no. 98938). [P.]. 



d. S ad. sk. Eagle Pass, Texas, Dec. 15 (H. E. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Dresser). 



e. $ ad. sk. Eagle Pass, Feb. 3 (H. E. D.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



