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NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



easily accustomed to confinement, and in a few days will become quite tame. 

 When slightly wounded and captured, they at first make a sturdy resistance, 

 and bite quite severely. They are much attached to their young, and when 

 approached evince great anxiety, the female thrusting herself forward to 

 divert attention by her outcries and her simulated lameness. 



The eggs of this species are of a rounded-oval shape, and have a dull- 

 white ground, spotted with dots and blotches of a wine-colored brown. 

 These usually are larger than in the other species, and are mostly congre- 

 gated about the larger end, and measure .98 of an inch in length by .80 in 

 breadth. 



Pipilo erythrophthalmus, var. alleni, Coues. 



WHITE-EYED CHEWINK ; FLORIDA CHEWINK. 



Pipilo alleni, Coues, American Naturalist, V, Aug. 1871, 366. 



Sp. Char. Similar to erythrophthalmus, but differing in the following respects : 

 White spaces on wings and tail much restricted, those on inner webs of lateral tail-feathers 

 only .50 to .75 long. Size very much smaller, except the bill, which is absolutely larger. 

 Iris white. 



^. (55,267, Dummits's Grove, Florida, March, 1869.) Length, 7.75; wing, 3.00; tail, 

 3.75 ; bill from nostril, .38 ; tarsus, .07. 



9- (55,271, same locality and date.) Wing, 3.00; tail, 3.50; bill from nostril, .37; 

 tarsus, .91. White on primaries almost absent. 



This interesting variety of Pipilo erythrophthalmus was found in Florida, 

 in the spring of 1869, by Mr. C. J. Maynard, and probably represents the 

 species as resident in that State. It is considerably smaller than the average 

 (length, 7.75 ; extent, 10.00 ; wing, 3.00 ; tarsus, .95), and has very apprecia- 

 bly less white on the tail. The outer web of outer feather is only narrowly 



edged with white, in- 

 stead of being entire- 

 ly so to the shaft 

 (except in one speci- 

 men), and the termi- 

 nal white tip, con- 

 fined to the inner 

 web, is only from .50 

 to .75 of an inch long, 

 instead of 1.25 to 



2136, Pipilo erythropthalmits. 2^7, var. alleni. 1 'Ji'. (^y abnnt tllP 



amount on the second feather of northern specimens, as shown in tlie 

 accompanying figures. There is apparently a greater tendency to dusky 

 streaks and specks in the rufous of the side of the breast or in tlie adjacent 

 white. Eesident specimens from Georgia are intermediate in size and color 

 between the northern and Florida races. 



