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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part T. 



this involving more tlian half of the outer feather, or nearly the 

 whole of its cx[)osecl portion. 



Young birds differ in having the upper plumage much duller and 

 tinged with ochraeeous ; the feathers, especially of head and rump, 

 waved (nn:)st finely on the head) with dusky, the jugulum and breast 

 similarly marked. The tips of the greater wing coverts are pale 

 ochraeeous, and, like the lesser, are waved with dusky ; the black 

 cheek stripe is obsolete in front of the eye, excepting a spot at its 

 anterior canthus ; the bill and legs are paler. 



The difference between this species and its American allies will 

 be [)ointed out farther on. It ai)pears to be very closely related to 

 the L. merkUonalis of Europe "(Temminck, Man. I, 1820, 143; 

 Degland, Ois. Eur. I, 1849, 384; Bree, Birds Europe, I, 1859, 

 159, plate, etc.) ; but judging from Degland's description, the latter 

 differs principally in the vinaceous or rosy tinge of the under parts, 

 and in the rectrices being entirely black at the base. The eye stripe, 

 with its paler upper border anteriorly, and the white markings of 

 the wing appear to be much the same. The length of meridionaUs 

 (ten inches) is considerably greater. 



Specimens examined, ten. 



Locality. 



Liberty County, Ga. 

 Southern Atlantic 



States. 

 Savannah, Ga. 



When 

 Collected. 



Received from 



Collected Idv 



S. F. Baird. 



Colliirio elegans. 



Laniua el<'gans, Sw. F. B. A. II, 1831, 122.— Nuttall, Man. I, 1840, 287. 

 — CA.SS1N, Pr. A. N. Sc. 1857, 213.— Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 

 327. — CoUyrio elegans, Baird, Birds N. Am. 1S58, xxxv. 



Ilah. California? 



Thinl quill longest ; then 4th and 5th ; 2d between 5th and Gth ; 1st about 

 half the longest. Bill lengthened and very powerful, as large and strong as 

 that of L. horedlis. 



Uppei- parts dark plumbeous-ash (very much as in L. ludoviciaynis) ; darkest 

 on head, a little paler perhaps on the lower back and rump (very slightly and 

 almost inappreciably, however) ; the forehead as dark as, or even darker than 

 the vertex ; the longer scapulars quite white at ends. Beneath bluish-white, 

 quite pure on throat and sides of neck, middle of belly, and crissum ; the 

 sides of body and the front of breast decidedly bluish ; the axillars, how- 

 ever, with their outer webs quite white, their inner more ashy ; the lesser 



