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PODICIPEDIDJE. 



and rest of the uuderparts pure silvery white, only the sides 

 and flanks tipped with dark ash ; outer primaries ash-brown, 

 whitish on the basal half of the inner web, the white gradually 

 increasing on the innermost quills, which are often nearly pure 

 white ; secondaries white, more or less widely edged with ash- 

 hrown on the outer web and sometimes tipped with the same 

 colour. " Iris bright orange-red with a shade of pink ; bill rather 

 briglit yellow, culmen and genys more greenish ; inside of legs and 

 soles of feet black ; outside of tarsus dull bluish green ; middle of 

 each web yellowish flesh-colour " {E. Coues). 



Adult male. Total length about 26-5 inches, culmen from 

 feathers on forehead 2-6-3-1, wing 7-8-1, tarsus 3, outer toe and 

 claw 3-5. 



Adult female. Total length 18-5 inches, culmen from feathers 

 on forehead 2-1-2-2, wing 6-4-6-7, tarsus 2-7, outer toe and 

 claw 3-1. 



Younger examples appear to differ in having the dark colour of 

 the top of the head continued over the lores and cheeks below the 

 eye.^ 



Young in dowyi. General colour of the upper parts uniform 

 dark smoky-grey, the crown and back of the neck pale smoky-grey ; 

 rest of the head, neck, and uuderparts white ; a naked triangular 

 patch on the middle of the crown. 



Hah. Northern and Western States of JS'orth America, south to 

 Mexico. 



Culmen. Wing, 

 in. in. 



a. Ad. ek. 26 8-1 



b. Imm. sk. 2-6 7 9 



c. Imm. sk. 3-0 7'8 



d. (5 ad. sk. 2-9 7-8 



British Columbia. 



British Columbia. 

 British Columbia. 

 Lake Washoe, Nevada, 



June 2 (H. G. Parker ^• 



H. W. Hemkatv). 

 Lake W^ashoe, May 7 ( W. 



E. Bryant). 

 Lake \Vashoe, May 7 



( W. E. B.). 

 Lake Washoe, May ( W. 



E. B.). 

 Lake Washoe, May ( W. 



E. B.). 

 San Francisco Bay {F. 



G ruber). 

 Monterey, California, 



April. 

 Eagle Lake, California, 



July 2 {H. W. H.). 

 Valley of Mexico {H. S. 



le Strange). 

 Chapada, State of Jalisco, 



Mexico, Aug. ( W. B. 



Bichardson). 



North American 



Bound. Comm.rP.]. 

 J. K. Lord, Esq. [P.J. 

 J. K. Lord, Esq. [P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godmau Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Mr. Alvin Seale [C.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

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