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the loral region mixed with hlack hairs, and the feathers of the post- 

 anguhxr patch having black shafts and gradually blending apically to 

 blackish behind; upper and under tail-coverts narrowly tipped with white; 

 tail jet black, white at extreme base, narrowly tipped with white, and 

 crossed about the middle by a broad continuous band of pure white, ot 

 variable pattern on the individual feathers, and with a few irregular, small 

 white spots upon the inner webs between the white central and basal bands, 

 barely indicating an additional white bar; shafts of rectrices black above 

 excepting the two central ones, which are white, lined centrally with 

 black, below chiefly white in the area corresponding to the white bar, 

 elsewhere black ; feathers of the nape and interscapular region white at 

 base, the rest of the body feathers being blackish throughout; tibial 

 plumes narrrowly tipped with rusty white, not filamentous; feathers of the 

 edge of wing narrowly edged with white; lining of wings black, a few 

 feathers perceptibly edged with pale rufous; remiges beautifully mottled 

 beneath with white on the inner and gray on the outer webs; above the 

 outer webs are mottled with hoary grayish, the mottling changing upon 

 the inner webs to rusty ochraceous and whitish; quills white at base, 

 shading to black; scapulars indistinctly edged with browish. Irides 

 reddish-hazel. Cere, mastax and tomia orange. Bill plumbeous black, 

 orange at extreme base. Tarsi and feet yellow; claws plumbeous black. 

 Dimensions. — Length, 555; alar expanse, 1315; wing, 413; tail, 245; 

 culmen and cere (chord), 40; cere, 15; culmen, 28; gape, 42; tarsus, 91 ; 

 middle toe and claw, 62; middle toe alone, 47. Claw of hallux, 27; inner 

 claw, 52; middle claw^, 22; outer claw, 17. 



A specimen in fresh autumnal plumage (No. 3354, $ad., Sept. 26, 1884, 

 Verde River, near Fort Verde, Arizona; E. A. M.) differs from the above 

 chiefly in having the glaucous tinge of the plumage much more distinct, 

 in this respect aftbrding an exact parallel to the Black Crested Flysnapper 

 {Phainopepla nitcns) in corresponding plumages. The glaucous extends 

 to all of the dark plumage except the tail. The plumage being unworn, 

 the pattern of the apices of the feathers is better exhibited; the terminal 

 band of white on the tail is wider, the light edging to the tail-coverts, tibial 

 plumes, and edge of wing more pronounced, and some feathers of the 

 chest and interscapular region are seen to have rusty edgings, while upon 

 the chin and cheeks are scattered a few white filamentous feathers, and the 

 concealed bases of the feathers of the nape and interscapulars are rusty 

 tinted. The mottling of the remiges is darker — chiefly gray, with little 

 white or i-usty. The white spots upon the inner webs of the rectrices, 

 mentioned above as indicating an additional white bar, intermediate be- 

 tween the basal and broad central white bands, are strongly indicated and 

 extend to both sides of the shafts. The feathers at front of forehead are white 

 at extreme base. Irides hazel. Bill pale yellow at base, shading through 

 light plumbeous to blue-black terminally. Cere, mastax, and tomia pure 

 bright 3'ellow. Tarsi and feet yellow ; claws blue-black. Dimensions. — 

 Length, 560; alar expense, 1330; wing, 400; tail, 262; culmen and cere, 40; 

 cere, 16; culmen, 28; gape. 42; tarsus. 88; middle toe and claw. 66: 



