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U. S. p. R. E. KXP. AND SURVEYS ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT- 



List of specimens. 



Catal. Sex find 

 No. I age. 



Locality. 



5658 

 S661 j 

 882-3 ! 

 6823 



8207 j 



8229 

 5660 

 8264 



5927 ;' 



5928 j 

 5929 

 8262 I 

 8-261 I 

 1?81 

 5544 j 

 8260 i 

 8359 \ 

 4907 I 



Q 



9 

 3 



Black Hills, K. T.. 

 do 



Black Hills 



Laramie peak 



Fort Laramie, Neb. 



do.. 



S 

 3 

 3 



Q 

 3 

 3 

 o 



3 

 3 



Medicine Bow river.... 

 Mimbrcs to Kio Grande, 



Steilacoom, W. T 



do 



, do 



do 



do 



Columbia river 



Petalu ma, Cal 



Tejon valley, Cal 



rosa creek, Cal 



San Diego, Cal 



Whert col- 

 lected. 



Aug 3, 185S 

 Aug. 4,1856 

 Sept. 13, 1857 

 Aug. 24,1657 

 Sept. 8,1857 



Sept. 17,1857 

 Aug. 25.1856 



iMay —,1855 



do 



dr 



185G 



Aug. —,1854 



May 13,1856 



Whence obtained. 



Lieut. Bryan. 

 , do 



Lieut. Warren. 



do 



Dr. Cooper .... 



do 



Lieut. Brj'an 



Dr. T. C. Henry... 



Dr. Cooper 



do 



do 



Dr. Suckley 



.... do 



S. F. Baird 



E. Samuels 



Lieut. Williamson. 



do 



Dr. Hammond 



Orig. 

 No. 



Collected by- 



195 W. S. Wood., 



204 ' do 



' Dr. Hayden... 



.do.. 



188 



211 

 3U0 



W. S. Wood.. 



J. K.Townsend, 



Dr. Hcermann. 

 do 



Stretch 

 ofwings. 



7.25 11.75 

 7.00 11.00 

 7.25 11.50 



3.50 

 3 50 

 4.00 



.00 11 23 



Iris brown 



Iris dark brown 



Iri^ brown ; bill black 



and yellow; feet bPk. 



do.... .do 



EUPHONIA, Desm. 



Euphonia, Desm. Hist. Nat. des T.ingaras, 1805.— Sclater, Pr. Zool. Soc. 18.56, §71. 



Ch. — Bill short, widened or depressed; the culinen curved; gonys ascending; commissure notched at tip, and somewhat 

 serrate. Wings long ; tail short, quadrate. Colors black, blue, and yellowish. 



The bill of Evphonia is mucli shorter than the head, and very broad at the base. The two 

 or three toothed lobes near the tip of cutting edge of the upper mandible are very distinct. The 

 rictal bristles are very short. The tarsi are much shorter than the middle toe. The tail is very 

 short, the feathers narrow. 



EUPHONIA ELEGANTISSIMA, Gray. 



Pipra eleganlissima, Bonap. Pr. Zool. Soc. 1837, 112. 



Euphenia eleganlissima, Gray, Genera, App. 17. — Bonap. Consp. 1850, 232. — DcBtrs, Esq. Orn. — Sclater, Cont. 



Orn. 1851, 83.— Ib. Pr. Zool. Soc. 1856, 273. 

 Euphonia coelesiis, Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1839, 39. 

 Pipra giiltricuUita, Giracd, 16 Sp. Birds Texas, 1841. 



Sp. Cii. — Top of head and a half collar on the neck behind opaque blue. Sides of head and neck, chin, throat, and upper 

 parts generally, steel bluish black. Beneath yellow brownish fulvous, tinged with dark brownish chestnut, especially on the 

 forepart of the breast and towards the tail. Forehead dark chestnut, margined behind by black. Length, 4.70 ; wing, 2.75 ; 

 tail, 1.80. 



JIab. — Northern Mexico to Guatemala. California.' 



This is one of the species {Pipra galericulata) described by Mr. Giraud in his " Sixteen New 

 Species of Texas Birds," and the specimen 560 was obtained in the same locality with Mr. 

 Giraud's. It is, however, very probable that the sixteen were actually collected some distance 

 to the south of the Texas border, probably in the southern portion of the State of Tamaulipas. 

 I am informed by Dr. Cooper that the same bird has been captured near San Francisco, and 

 that the specimen is now in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of that city. 



