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in color, and more or less thickly or thinly marked, but the narrow zigzag lines 

 in the one case, and the almost wholly want of same upon the other kind, to- 

 gether with their deeper ground color, will, I think, be too apparent for doubt. 

 In shape and measurement the eggs vary about alike, running from 3 to 3i 

 inches in length, by li'iiff to 2t6o inches in diameter. 



I will further say of the eggs examined, the " white-eyed " were very uniform 

 in color and markings, which was not the case with L. Arra, and as many of 

 the birds nesting with the latter were blacker in color and their bills smaller, 

 I am inclined to think further examination will prove them to be the true 

 Lomvla Troile, and the ones I have spoken of as the " white-eyed," be restored 

 to their former name, Lomvla Ringvla, and not an individual phrase of L. 

 Troile as now thought and classified. 



NOTES ON MELEAGRIS OCELLATA, CUVIER. 



BY GEO. F. GAUMER, SANJTA FE, NEW MEXICO. 



Head and upper part of neck destitute of feathers, and sparsely covered 

 with short bristles. There are about twenty-four fleshy processes arranged 

 in two rows on the front part of the neck, and about twenty more of the 

 same kind form two rows over the head ; many smaller ones are scattered 

 over the head. At the point of union of the bill with the head, there is a 

 long fleshy process capable of much erection and distension. Behind this 

 the fleshy scalp is permanently elevated, so as to form a flat-topped pyramid, 

 with its greatest ileugth from bill to occiput. The wing is comparatively 

 small; the seventh primary is generally the longest; this, however, varies in 

 different individuals, from the fifth to the seventh. .The tail is composed of 

 eighteen feathers, (and not fourteen as stated by authors ;) these are grad- 

 uated quite evenly, and diminish successively about three-quarters of an inch. 



The tarsus is long and stout; -anteriorly it is covered by a double row of 

 pentagonal scales; there is also a double row of similar ones behind; the ex- 

 ternal row extends two scales below and the internal row just to the spur. 

 The sides have small, oblong, oval and hexagonal scales. The male is pro- 

 vided with a long, sharp spur, the center of which is about two inches above 

 the sole of the foot. It stands nearly perpendicularly to the tarsus, and is 

 directed postero-internally. In the full-grown male the spur is about two 

 inches in length, conical, slightly compressed, and decidedly curved upwards 

 towards the tip. All the feathers are broad, and give a peculiar scaly ap- 

 pearance to the bird. 



General color, dark metallic emerald-green. Every feather has a con- 

 spicuous, terminal fringe of the most brilliant metallic gold and bronze. On 

 the lower part of the neck the body of the feather is emerald green ; between 



