224 kingillid^:. 



greater coverts brighter yellow, tipped with ashy, the black bases 

 conspicuous and forming a bar ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

 black, fringed with olive-yellow ; quills black, edged with bright 

 golden yellow, becoming wbitish towards the extremity of the 

 yellow margin of the primaries ; all the quills narrowly fringed with 

 white at the ends, the inner secondaries broadly margined with 

 whitish on both webs, and also black at the base, forming a bar as 

 in the greater coverts ; upper tail-coverts ashy grey ; tail-feathers 

 black, edged with ashy grey, fringed with white on the inner web, 

 the three outer feathers with a large square white spot on the inner 

 web, slightly indicated also on the fourth feather ; crown of head 

 black, the sides of the hinder crown, nape, and hind neck ashy ; 

 lores, fore part of cheeks, and eyelid black ; ear-coverts and remainder 

 of cheeks ashy grey, slightly tinged with yellow aud pearly grey 

 just behind the eye : throat black in the centre, the sides ashy like 

 the ear-coverts and sides of neck ; lower throat, fore neck, and breast 

 golden yellow ; abdomen and under tail-coverts white ; sides of body 

 and Hanks ashy brown ; thighs whitish, externally ashy ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries yellow, ashy at the base ; quills below 

 dusky, ashy along the inner edge. Total length 4o inches, culmen 

 0-3, wing 2-6, tail 1*8, tarsus 0'5. 



The adult male in summer plumage, by the abrasion of the edges 

 of the feathers, has the mautle and upper back yellow, but not so 

 bright as the lower back and rump. The black on the throat 

 narrows to a point. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but with the black of the head 

 replaced by ash (Baird, Brewer, and Rldgiuay). 



Young. Uniform ashy brown above, the neck like the back ; 

 lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts dusky, 

 edged with olive -yellow, broadly tipped with whity brown, forming 

 a double wing-bar ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts dusky 

 blackish, fringed with yellowish ; quills blackish, edged with olive- 

 yellow, fringed with white at the ends, the secondaries broadly 

 margined and having a black bar near the base ; tail-feathers 

 blackish, edged and tipped with ashy ; sides of face, throat, and 

 breast rather lighter ashy brown than the back, the fore neck and 

 breast faintly streaked with dusky brown ; abdomen whitish ; under 

 tail-coverts whitish with dusky bases. 



Young female. Resembling the young male, but without any 

 streaks on the breast. 



Hab. California ; Arizona in winter. 



a. Ad. sk. California. Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. California. Sclater Coll. 



c. J ad. sk. California (E. W. Nelson). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



d. $ ad. sk. Fort Tejon, California, May 5, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1858 (J. Xantus ; Sin. no. 

 25659;. 



e. S ad. sk. Fort Tejon, June 17, 1858 (J. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Xantus; Sm. no. 25650). 



