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125S, 12.j1), nests and eggs; Parley's Park, Walisat(!li Mountains, Utali, June 2;$, 

 18CJ. Nests about eighteen inches above tlio ground, in small briers or bushes, in 

 weedy undergrowth near stream, (i'arents of both shot.) 



1307, nest and eggs (4); Parley's Park, June 27, 1800. Nest iu bush, about a loot 

 from ground. 



I.itj5, nest and eggs (•'$); Uintah Mountains, July 3, 18C9. Nest among uuder- 

 growth of asi)eu-gro\e, iu bush, a foot from ground. 



1380, Sjuv.; Uintah Mountains, July 7, 1809. 5| — 75 Bill, black, the cominissuro 

 and basal two-thirds of lower mandible, deep lilaceous; iris, browu; tarsi, light lila- 

 ceousbrown; toes, darker. 



1432,3 juv.; Parley's Park, July 19, 1809. 5J— 7J. Upper mandible, black, the 

 toniium white; lower, lilaceous-white, the terminal third dusky; iris, brown; tarsi, pur- 

 l>lish brown; toes, dark browu. 



ICTEKIA VIKENS. 

 Yvllow-brca^lcd Cliat. 



fi. lonykauda — Long-tailed Chat. 



Icteria longicauda, Lawrknce, Ann. Lye. N. H., N. Y., VI, April, 1853, 4. — 

 Baikd, B. N. Am., IS.'.S, 249, \A. 34, fig. 2; Catal., 1859, No. 177; Review, 

 1805, 230.— CooPKK, Orn. Cal., 98. 



Icteria virens var. longicauda, COUES, Key, 1872, 108; Check List, 1873, No. 100a. 

 — B. B. & ]{., Hist. N. Am. Birds, I, 1874, 309.— HKNgllAW, 1875, 200. 



Icteria virens. b. longlcanda, CouES, Birds N.W., 1874, 77. 



The distribution of tlie Yellow-breasted Cliiit corre.spond.s so nearly with 

 that of the Maryland Yellow-throat, that they were generally to be found iu 

 the same thicket; but its vertical ranj^e is somewhat greater, it being fre- 

 quently met with in the lower portion of the canons. It was equally common 

 in California and the Interior, and appeared to l)e in all respects the same 

 bird as the eastern race. Its song during the breeding-season, like that of the 

 eastern bird, is conspicuous from its extreme oddity, as well as for its power 

 and variety; and we were often awakened at midnight by its notes, when, 

 but for the yelping of the prowling Coyotes (Can'tn tatraxs), the stillness 

 would have been tudtrokcu. It was also observed that they were partic- 

 ularly musical on bright moonlight nights. 



List of specimens. 



23, nest and eggs (3); Sacramento, C.difornia, Juno 11, 1807. Nest in wildroso 

 brier, amoug uudergrowth of oak grovo. 



