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pp. CiiAK. (Vest Ifnjrth»MU'<I. iJody jriMU-rally s«»l"t, J^ilky hr<)\viiisli-jL«{hy, with a [nirplish 

 cast, tilt' wiii<;-<'ov«'rts awl scapulars more luowuisli, lircoiiiiii^'' iiion' r»Mltlisli aiiteiioilv 

 and ashy postninrly ; tht- rump and iipper tail-ruvfits, as wtll as th«' st'cmidaries, ln-iiivr 

 iirarly pure ash. Aiit»'iii)ily thr color passes u'radually into deep viuaeeous-ehestuut ou 

 the loreheail to Itehiiid the eye ami ou the; eheiks ; ahdoiueu yellowish-white. Lower 

 taii-e«)vert« deep chestnut. A stripe on side of the head, eoveriuj; the lores and nasal 

 leather.** (sear«'elv nn.'etiuir across the forehead), iiivolviui; the e\e and continued hack !(.►- 

 ward the occiput and heneath the crest, with a lar^e patch eoverin«r the chin and throat, 

 deep black; a narrow crescent on lower eyelid, ami a .•short stripe between the black of 



the throat and that of the chin at the base of the lower mandible, two very broad bars on 

 the winir, <">e across en<ls of primary coverts, and the other across ends of secondaries (the 

 first oceupyini,' both webs, and the latter the outer), white. Primary coverts, primaries, 

 and tail slaty-black, the latter frrowinjr irradually ashy basally. A bioad l>aud across end 

 of tail, and a lonjritudinal space alonjr end of outer web of primaries. gambo<re-yell()W, — 

 the marks on primaries, however, sometimes white, only stained with yellow. Each of the 

 .secondaries with an expanded continuation of the .shaft, in form of flattened, very thin, 

 somewhat elli|itical appendages, of a bright \ ermilioii-red resembling red sealing-wax. ^f(lIe 

 with the white of outer wel) of primaries continued around end of inner webs also. 

 Female without white on terminal edge of inner webs of prinuvries, an»l with the "seal- 

 ing-wax " appendag<'S smaller. y')>n*</ not seen. Length, 7.40; wing, 4.r)0; tail, 3.00. 



IIab. Xorfhern parts of Eiu'ope, America, and Asia. In America not hitherto found 

 in the Pacific Province. In winter extending along the Rocky Mountains and the TMains 

 as far .south as Fort ^fassachusetts and Port Riley; icgular visitor to shores of Lake Michi- 

 gan and Lake Erie. East of this rarely seen along the L'nited States Ijorder. Fort Mo- 

 have C???) (CooPKii). 



The specimen seen by Dr. Cooper, .it Fort ^lohave, if really of this spe- 

 cies, fixes the most western locality on record. 



For many years authentic eg^s of the Boliemian Chatterer were lijreatly 

 sonjxht after, hut it was not until isr>(3 that any were brought to the notice 

 of tlie scientific world, when the late Mr. H. Wolley discovered them in 

 Lapland. Pearly dujdicates from his collection were sold at five guineas each, 

 and although a good many have since been obtained, they are yet consid- 

 ered as great jirizes. A nest, with its eggs, of those collected by ^Ir. Wol- 

 ley, has been presented to tlie Smithsonian Institution by ^Ir. Alfred Newton. 

 The only instances on record of their discovery in America are of a nest and 

 one egg by Mr. Kennicott, on the Yukon, in 1861, and a nest and single q^*^ 



