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TETEA0NID2E, 



grey ; upper tail-coverts dark grey, vermieulated with white on the 

 sides and largely tipped with white, the white tips fonninr/ a con- 

 tinuous white band ; throat and upper breast dark metallic green ; 

 lower breast and belly black, vermieulated on the sides and flanks 

 with white, and largely tipped with the same colour, the spots 

 becoming smaller towards the middle of the belly, and increasing in 

 size towards the under tail-coverts, which are black with wide 

 white tips; tail black, the middle feathers vermieulated nearly all 

 over with white. Tarsi covered with smoky - brown feathers. 

 Naked skin round the eye red ; bill black ; feet horny grey. Total 

 length 30 inches, wing 14-1, tail 11, tarsus 2-7. 



Adult female. Differs from the female of T. parvirostris chiefly 

 in having the top of the head blacker and more widely margined 

 with white ; the upper tail-coverts brown, barred with rufous and 

 largely tipped with white, the wide white tips to the scapulars 

 forming a continuous ivhite hand, and the tarsi white, slightly 

 variegated with brown. Total length 22 inches, wing ll'l, 

 tail 6-4, tarsus 2-0. 



Bab. Kamtschatka. 



a, J imm. sk. Kamtschatka. Purchased. 



4. CANACHITES. 



Type. 

 Canace, Reich, {nee Curtis, Dipt. 1838) Nat. Si/st. 



Vog. p. xxix (1852) C. canadensis. 



Canachites, Stejn. P. U.S. Nat. Mas. viii. p. 409 



(1885) C. canadensis. 



Tail composed of 16 feathers, moderately long and somewhat 

 rounded, the outer pair not much shorter than the central pair. 



1st primary much shorter than the 2nd, and about equal to the 

 7th ; 4th somewhat the longest. 



Axillaries long and dark grey with white shaft and tip. 



Middle toe and claw longer than the tarsus by about the length 

 of the claw. 



Tarsi feathered ; toes naked, and pectinated on the sides. 



Range. Northern parts of N. America. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Upper tail-coverts edged or tipped with grey ; 



tail with a well-marked terminal rufous 

 band. 



a. Chin and throat black canadensis ^ , p. 69. 



b. Chin and throat rufous, spotted with black . canadensis J , p, 69. 



B. Upper tail-coverts tipped with white, no 



terminal band to tail. 



c. Chin and throat black franhlini S , P- 71. 



d. Chin and throat rufous, spotted with black . franhlini J , p. 71. 



