224 NOTES ON THE 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 



Head with a long crest; above blue, without metallic lustre: 

 beneath with a concealed band across the occiput, and a spot 

 anterior to the eye, pure white; a band across the breast, and 

 the sides of the body under the wings, like the back; primaries 

 white on the basal half, the terminal unspotted; tail with trans- 

 verse bands and spots of white. 



Young with the sides of the body, and a transverse band across 

 the belly below the pectoral one, light chestnut; the pectoral 

 band more or less tinged with the same. 



Length, 12.75; wing, 6; tail short. 



Habitat, North America. 



