4 Additions to North American Ornithology. 



gentleman who has for some years devoted much, time to the 

 study of different branches of our Natural History ; to whom 

 I take pleasure in dedicating this species. 



Icteria Long icaucla. 



Long-Tailkd Chat. 



Upper plumage dull olive green, inclining to brown on the 

 head ; wings and tail light brown, edged with olive green ; a 

 line from the nostrils over the eye, eyelids, and a line from the 

 lower mandible down the side of the neck, nearly three fourths 

 of an inch in extent, white ; lores, black ; throat and breast, 

 orange yellow ; under wing coverts yellow ; sides, dark ash ; 

 abdomen and under tail coverts ashy white ; bill, black ; edges 

 of both mandibles and an oblong spot on the lower, near the 

 base, greyish-white ; legs and feet in the dried specimen, dusky 

 brown. 



Length of skin, 7f inches ; wing from flexure, 3-J- inches ; bill, 

 T 9 F inch ; tarsus, 1 inch ; tail, 3f inches. 



One other specimen has the upper plumage olive brown, and 

 the bill entirely black ; in other respects precisely the same. 



Habitat. — California ; obtained by E. S. Holden, Esq. 



It is readily distinguished from I. viridis by its much longer 

 tail. 



II. — Additions to North American Ornithology. — No. 3. 



By Geo. N. Lawrence. Read March 28, 1853. 



1. Ephialtes choliba Vieill. (Strix crucigera Spix.) Entire 

 upper plumage brownish-ash, finely mottled and barred with 



