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being related to the Mimine, in that subfamily we find 
such a form as Galeoscoptes carolinensis, which not only lays 
greenish blue eggs, but also sometimes has the tarsal scutella 
obsolete (it being generally so in Chamea). This and other 
minor points present themselves which will keep the fact before 
our minds that originally all these forms came from the same 
stock, and in the divergence which has subsequently taken 
place, in time, species have been created that are now remotely 
affined, as are such forms as Galeoscoptes carolinensis and Cha- 
mea fasciata. Still Darwin has shown how such characters as 
I have mentioned above may be retained by the now more dis- 
tantly related forms, and be transmitted by them. 
So far then as the color of its eggs are concerned, it, as a char- 
acter, points to the troglodytine affinity of Chamea, probably in 
the way I have indicated, as birds directly related to the Wrens, 
as we have just seen, lay greenish blue eggs, and we are thus 
not compelled to pass beyond the limits of the family lines to ob- 
tain a likely explanation of this fact. At the present time I do not 
recall any typical parine form which lays an unspotted blue egg. 
Recently I have had the opportunity of examining both 
Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus and Auriparus flaviceps in the 
flesh, several specimens of each. The former has all the char- 
acters of a large Wren, more nearly related to the species 
associated in the genus Harporhynchus than are any of our 
smaller Wrens; while the latter, notwithstanding its peculiar 
coloration, and some other non-strictly external parine charac- 
ters, has a skeleton essentially very much like that part of the 
anatomy in Psaltriparus and its allies. 
Before recapitulating the skeletal characters for comparison, 
of a number of the species we have been examining in the 
present connection, I would again lay stress upon the fact that 
in so far as its topographical anatomy and characters are con- 
cerned, Chamea shows a far closer kinship with Psa/triparus 
than it does with any of our typical North American Wrens. 
In the matter of coloration simply, its predominating shades of 
brown seem to point Wren-wards ; still we must remember here 
that in the case of the inland form of Chamea (C. f. henshawt) 
the prevailing tints of the plumage are of a grayish ash, which 
Coues admits is “about the color of a Lophophanes.” 1} Already 
1 Key, 2d ed., p. 262, 
