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U. S&S. P. R. R, EXP. AND SURVEYS—-ZOOLOGY—GENERAL REPORT. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. Sex and 
| 
No. | age. | 
| 
Locality. 
When col- 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
| Collected by— 
| Black HillsS...eeeeeees 
| Laramie peak......+.+. 
Fort Laramie, Neb..... 
| Medicine Bow river.... 
Aug. 3,1856 
Aug. 4,1836 
Sept. 13, 1857 
Aug. 24,1857 
Sept. &,1857 
Sept. 17,1857 
Aug. 25, 1856 
Mimbres to Rio Grande.|.....-04 ose. 
Columbia river . 
Petaluma, Cal..... 
‘Tejon valley, Cal. 
Tosa creek, Cal........ 
San Diego, Cal......... 
Licut. Bryan....... 
Dr. T'. C. Henry.... 
seen dOrsascviccsce 
S. F. Baird... 
E. Samuels ....... 
Lieut. Williamson, 
| W.S. Wood... 
EUPHONIA, Desm. 
] 
Length, Stretch | Wing. 
of wings. 
sane ceee| weeeeeee [scenes 
7.25 11.75 | 
7.00) 11.00 | 
| 
Remarks. 
| [ris brown; bill black 
and yellow; feet bl’k. 
Euphonia, Desm. Hist. Nat. des Tangaras, 1805.—Sciarter, Pr. Zool. Soc. 1856, 271. 
Cn.—Bill short, widened or depressed ; the culmen curved ; gonys ascending ; commissure notched at tip, and somewhat 
serrate. Wings long; tail short, quadrate. 
The bill of Huphonia is much shorter than the head, and very broad at the base. 
Colors black, blue, and yellowish. 
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. 
Pipra elegantissima, Bonar. Pr. Zool. Soc. 1837, 112. 
Euphonia elegantissima, Gray, Genera, App. 17.—Bonar. Consp. 1850, 232.—Dusvus, Esq. Orn.—Scuarter, Cont. 
Orn. 1851, 83.—Is. Pr. Zool. Soc. 1856, 273. 
Euphonia coelestis, Lesson, Rev. Zool. 18395739) 
Pipra galericulata, Giraup, 16 Sp. Birds Texas, 1841. 
Sp. Cu.—Top of head and a half collar on the neck behind opaque blue. 
EUPHONIA ELEGANTISSIMA, Gray. 
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. 
Hab.—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. 
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. 
Giraud’s. 
