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entmiiee was a covered jtassuixe, varying from six to ten inches in lenj^th. 

 The eggs, six in nnnil)er, he descrihed as being of a delicate salnion-cohir, 

 very pale, and often so thickly speckled with ash antl darker salnion-ccdoriMl 

 spots as to give (jnite a rich cast to the whole surface of the egg. 



Lieutenant Couch met with these birds near Monterey. He states tliat 

 they have a rich, powerful song. Of tlie nest he gives substantially the 

 same description as that furnished by Dr. Heermann. 



Tlie eggs are of an oblong-oval slu^pe, slightly more pointt"d at one end, 

 and are so equally and generally covered, over a white ground, with tine 

 salmon-colored spots, as to present a uniform and almost homogeneous 

 api)earance. They vaiy in length from an inch to 1.02 inches, and have 

 au average breadth of .08 of an inch. 



Campylorhynchus affinis, Xantus. 



THE CAPE CACTUS WBEH. 



Campiflorhi/ncfius (fjfitii.% .Xantcs, Pr. A. X. So. lJ>r»l», 'iVKS v<'apeSt. Luoiis). — IJAiim, Tr. 



A. N. S.-. ISr.y, 30;i : i:.'v. 100. - Sn,. Cital.. 18«51, 17, 110. 108. — Ellii.t, lllust. 



B. N. A. I, IV. — Cuoi'KK, Orn. Cal. I, 1870, 152. 



Sf. Char. Cap of head rt'ddisli-ljiowii ; the conccali'd ctMitros of fi'athors dusky. 

 Rest of iinjH'r parts irrayish-l>ro\vn. all the tVatln-rs of Ixxly and st-ajudars with bn)ad cen- 

 tral or shaft streaks of whitish edited with Mack: the streaks irreirular in ontline, on some 

 feathers nearly linear, in others widenini; at int«'rvals aU)ni«' the shaft. Onter wel)s of the 

 wing-feathers crossed by abont seven rows of whitish setnicircular spots, with correspond- 

 ing series of more eircnlar ones on the inner web. Tail-feathers black, all of them with a 

 series of about eight quadrate white spots on each web, \\ hich arc alternate to each other, 

 not opposite, an«l extend from t)r near the lilack shall to the edge: tin; extreme ti|»s of the 

 feathers black ; the two central feathers, however, more like the liack. with irre'nilar mot- 

 tling of grayish and black. UppiT tail-coverts l)arred transversely with black. 



Under parts white, faintly tinged with rusty posteriorly ; each feather spotted with 

 black, excepting on the innnaenlate chin. These spots are rather larger and more (piad- 

 rate on the Jugtdum, where they are sometimes on the sides of the feathers (on one 

 or both sitles) ; posteriorly, however, they are elongated or tear-shaped, and strung along 

 the shaft, one or two on each. On the crissum they are large and nmch round«Ml. three or 

 four on ea«-h longer feather. Legs rather dusky. Bill lead-color, palt; at the biise bdow : 

 iris reddish-brown. A broad white stripe from bill over the e^^e and nape: i-dged 

 above an<l below with black; line behind the eye like the crown , cheek-feathers white, 

 edged with blackish. 



Innuature specimens exhibit a tendency to a whitish spotting in the ends of the feathers 

 of the cap. A veiy young bird does nt>t, however, diller materially, excej)t in having the 

 siK>ts less distinct beneath, the whit<» streaks less conspicuous above, the white of the 

 wings soiled with rufous. Specimens vaiy considerably in the proportional ;us well as 

 absolute thickness and length of the bill ; thus. No. 32,107 nie;usures .80 from nostril to end 

 of bill, instead of .00, as given below for No. l2,!M;r). 



rj.ytJo. Total length, 7.50; wing, .J.-JO; tail. .{.40; its graduation. .45; expos«'d portion 

 of first primary, 1.42, of second, 2.1'), of longest, or fourth (measuretl from exposed biiso of 

 first primary), 2.4."); length of bill from forehead, .1)0, from nostril, .00; along gape, 1.07; 



