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Myiadestes townsendii. 
Ptiliogonys townsendii, Aup. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 206, pl. 419, fig. 2. (For 
other references see Birds N. Am. 321).—NeEwserry, P. R. Rep. VI, 
Whipple’s Rep. Zool. 82.— Culicivora towns. DEKay, N. Y. Zool. I, 
1844, 110.—Myiadestes towns. CaBanis, Wieg. Arch. 1847, I, 208.— 
. Scuater, P. Z. S. 1857, 5; 1858, 97.—Bairp, Birds N. Am. 1858, 
321.—Coorer & Suck.ey, P. R. Rep. XII, 1, 187.—Kennerty, P. R. 
Rep. X, Whipple’s Rep. 25.—Lorp, Pr. R. Art. Inst. Woolwich, IV, 
116 (Br. Col.). 
Hab. Mountainous regions of middle and western United States. (Not 
found at Cape St. Lucas nor in Mexico.) 
(No. 16,168.) Second quill shorter than 6th; 3d rather longer than 5th; 
4th longest. Wings much pointed, as long as the tail, which is forked, and 
the lateral feathers graduated. 
Prevailing color dark ash gray, scarcely lighter on breast, paler on abdomen, 
mixed with paler dull whitish-gray on chin, throat, belly and crissum ; the ends 
. Myiadestes townsendit, Cas. 
of axillars, inner wing coverts, edge of bend of wing, outer web of lateral and tips . 
of outer tail feathers, dull white. A white ring round the eye; the loral region 
and cheeks below eye blackish. Quill- and tail-feathers dark brown; the 
central tail feathers more like back, the lateral edged and tipped as described. 
All the quills with a broad, well-defined patch of light cinnamon at their bases ; 
which in the outer five are not visible across the outer webs, but show dis- 
tinctly externally on the rest. A second less distinct but broader band of 
similar color (brightest on the primaries) crosses the outer webs of the same 
quills nearer the end, the two bands separated by a blackish one. Outer 
edges of inner secondaries grayish-white. Bill black; feet dusky. 
No appreciable difference in the sexes ; the young bird thickly spotted with 
pale ochrey. 
