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the exterior of the wings, and the upper surface of the tail, which 

 is even slightly tinged with this colour. The entire head, except 

 the vertex, the sides of the neek, and the underparts generally, light 

 brownish red, strongly tinged with purple on the breast, becoming 

 lighter behind and passing into brownish yellow on the anal region, 

 tibia, and under tail-coverts ; a black spot below the ear-coverts ; 

 sides of the neck with a patch of metallic purplish red ; sides of the 

 bod)' and under surface of the wings clear light blue ; innermost 

 upper wing-coverts and scapulars spotted with black, mostly con- 

 cealed ; tail-feathers seen from below black, the outer web of the 

 outermost white, the others tipped with the same, the colour 

 becoming more and more bluish to the innermost, which is brown ; 

 seen from above there is the same gradation from white to light 

 blue in the tips ; the rest of the feather, however, is blue, with a 

 bar of black anterior to the light tip ; in the sixth feather the 

 colour is uniform bluish, with this bar ; the seventh is without the 

 bar : " bill black ; iris brown ; bare skin around eye livid bluish ; 

 feet lake-red." Length about 12-5 inches, wing 5-75, tail 5-7, 

 bill 0-58, tarsus 075, middle toe without nail 082. 



Female. A little smaller ; not purplish below, the rich colour 

 replaced by greyish brown like the back, but paler ; head and neck 

 with little of the glaucous blue shade and less iridescent. 



Young. " Like the female, but at an early age the velvety black 

 spots and iridescence are wanting and the general tone is quite 

 grey ; many feathers with whitish edging, as in the "Wild Pigeon 

 ( Ectopistes migratorius), with which not only the colours, but the 

 sexual and juvenile differences are thus closely corresponding" 

 ( Coues). 



Hub. North America, from Southern Elaine, Southern Canada, 

 and Oregon, south to Panama and the "West Indies. 



Some specimens from Central America are less purple, and more 

 golden on the sides of the neck. 



a, b. Ad. sk. N. America. Ilardwicke Bequest. 



c, d. Ad. sk. 49th Parallel, May, June. N. Amer. Boundary 



Commission [P.]. 

 e-h. cf $ ad. sk. W. side Rocky Mountains. J. K. Lord, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 i. 2 a d. sk. ^ ankegan, Illinois, April. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



k. S ad. sk. Prov. Utah, Aug. (H. TV. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Hemhaiv). 

 I, m. ($ ad. et 2 Colorado Springs, June (H. W. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



pull.sk. Henshaw). 



n. [2] ad sk- East Hampton, Mass., Oct. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



o. J ad. sk. New Haven, May (A. J. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Dayari). 

 p. <3 ad. sk. Throckmorton's Swamp, Diet. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



of Columbia, April (E. Coues). 

 q. 2 ad. sk. Haws Branch, B.C., March. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



r-z. J 2 ad. et Washington, District of Colum- Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 pull. sk. bia, March to May and Sept. 



(H. W. Henshaw). 



