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HARPOEHYNCHUS LECONTII, B o n a p . 



Toxostoma lecontii, Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Lye. V, Sept. 1851, 109. (Port Yuma.) 

 Harporhynchus lecontii, Bonap. Comptes Rendua, XXVIII, 1854, 57 ; Notes Orn. Delattre, 39. 



Sp. Ch.— Bill much curved. Second quill about equal to the tenth ; exposed portion of the first more than half the longest ; 

 outer tail feather an inch shortest. General color above light grayish ash, beneath much paler ; the chin and throat above 

 almost white ; the sides behind brownish yellow or pale rusty yellow ash, of which color is the crissum and anal region. Tail 

 feathers rather dark brown on the under surface, lighter above ; tho outer edges and tips of exterior ones obscurely paler. 

 Quills nearly like the back. 



II. — Fort Yuma, California. 



This species in form, shape, and curvature of hill and general appearance, is so much like 



the S. redivivus as to render it extremely likely that it will prove only one of those light 

 races or varieties so often met with in birds of the lower Gila river. The size is smaller, but this 



might be merely the result of its more southern habitat. The colors above are much lighter than 



in H. redivivus. The contrast between the body of the tail feathers and their obsoletely lighter 



ddges is rather more decided than in the other species. The second quill is longer, and the first 



is fully half the longest instead of less than half. The bill in curvature and general shape is 



exactly like that of H. redivivus. 



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