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and superciliary region grayish-white ; rest of cheeks speckled with brownish. 
The blackish ground color of upper surface of wings almost concealed by the 
broad edgings of yellowish-brown, varying in shade of color, and becoming 
much paler on the outer primaries, inner secondaries, and greater wing coverts. 
Tail feathers dark-brown ; the outer brownish or soiled white on the outer web, 
and on the inner web along the shaft from near the base, widening to the end 
so as to embrace the tip; next feather with outer web and a short terminal 
streak only white, the remajning feathers narrowly edged externally with the 
same. Bill dusky, except at base below; legs flesh color. 
Total length, 5.70; wing, 2.95; tail, 2.65; difference between 3d and 5th 
quills, .10; between 3d and 6th, .36; length of bill from forehead, .56, from 
nostril, .35; along gape, .65; tarsus, .90; middle toe and claw, .75; claw 
alone, .22; hind toe and claw, .96; claw alone, .52. 
A specimen (26,362) which was sold to Dr. Leidy, as from western 
North America, is scarcely distinguishable in any respect, except the 
purer white of tail and rather paler colors; and I am inclined to 
think that it really came, like the preceding bird, from Uruguay, as 
it is of precisely the same “make up” of skin, and was obtained 
from the father of the collector (Chr. Wood), who accompanied 
Capt. Page. It is, however, proper to state that a brother of this 
same collector (W. 8. Wood) obtained many specimens of birds 
from the plains east of the Rocky Mountains; and if the bird in 
question really came thence, it will be necessary to introduce the 
species into the Fauna of North America. 
This species is quite similar in external appearance to Neocorys 
spraguet, and of about the same size. The wings are, however, 
considerably shorter and more rounded; the point of the wing 
formed by five, not four quills. The legs are much the same. There 
is a much greater preponderance of reddish-brown on the upper 
parts, and of buff below; the axillars are brownish, not grayish- 
white, and there is much less white (and of less purity) on the tail. 
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Smith-| Collec-| Sex When 
sonian| tor’s | and Locality. @ollected Received from Collected by 
No. No. | Age. or 
21,035 100 fof Uruguay. Aug. 1860. | Capt. T. J. Page. | Chr. Wood. 
26,362 ae as Uruguay? tia Dr. Leidy. 2 ? 
