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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



perhaps entirely yellow there when mature. Inside of wings and axillars 

 whitish. A wliite ring round the eye. Bill and legs dusky. 



Length, 5.00; extent, 7.25 ; wing, 2.50 when fresh. Dried skin: length, 

 4.90; wing, 2.50; tail, 2.20 ; tarsus, .67. 



Of this interesting species, discovered by Dr. Anderson, and 

 named after Mrs. Anderson, but a single specimen was known to 

 collectors, until Dr. Cones obtained it at Fort Whipple, near Pres- 

 cott, in Arizona (Aug. 15, 1864). 



Sraith- 



soDiaa 



No. 



10,719 

 36,977 



CoUec- Sex 

 tor's and 

 No. Age. 



Locality. 



Kt. Burgwyn, N. M. 

 Ft. Whipple, Ariz. 



When 



Collected. 



Received from 



Aug. 15, '64. 



Dr. W. W. Ander- 



Dr. E. Coues, [son. 



[U.S.A. 



Collected by 



Dr. W. W. Ander- 

 Dr. Coues. [son. 



(10,719.) Tlie type of species. 



Helmiutliopliaga liiciae. 



Eehnintlwpha<ja lucice, Cooper, Pr. Cal. Acad. July, 1861, 120 (Fort 

 Mohave). 



Hab. Fort Mohave, Colorado River (middle province U. S.). 



General form and size that of //. mJicapilJa. Above light cinereous ; be- 

 neath white, having a soiled, very pale buff, almost white tinge on the throat, 

 breast, and flanks. A patch on the vertex, as in //. nijicapilla, and the upper 

 tail coverts dark chestnut-brown. Lores to nostrils, and region round the eye, 

 like the throat, in rather decided contrast to the ash of the crown. Quills 

 and tail feathers brown, narrowly edged externally with gray. An obsolete 

 terminal white patch on the inner web of the outer feather ; this web in most 

 of the other tail feathers likewise narrowly edged with white. Axillars and 

 inner face of wings white. Iris brown. Tarsi blue. 



Length, in life, 4.40 ; extent, 6.90 ; wing, 2.40. Of skin, 3.90 ; wing, 2.33 ; 

 tail, 1.86 ; tarsus, .64 ; middle toe and claw, .50 ; bill above, .35 ; gape, .50. 



Of this species several specimens were collected at Fort Mohave, 

 on the Colorado River, by Dr. Cooper. The species is dedicated to 

 Miss Lucy II. Baird. 



Locality. 



When 

 Collected. 



Ft. Mohave, Cal. 



Received from 



Dr. J. G. Cooper. 



Collected by 



(31,892.) A type of the species. 



Helniiiitliopliaga peregrina. 



Sylvia pereijrina, Wils. Am. Orn. IV, 1811, 83, pi. xxv, fig. 2. — Acd. 

 Orn. Biog. II, pi. 154. — Sylvicola per. Rich. — Vermirora per. Bo.n. — 

 Ilelinaia per. Aud. B. A. II, pi. 110. — Ilehnhherus per. Bon. — 



