502 



XOKTII AMERICAN BIRDS. 



foathors narrowly skirted with whitish sulpliur-yrllow. A dtisky loral spot, and a rather 

 (hstiin-t hjrhtcr supiMcihary stripe. Win;;, 3.<>0 ; tail, 2.')0; tarsus, .')(); middle toe, .30. 

 Winfr-foriimla, I, 2, 3, etc 

 Hah. Mussjiehusetti*. 



As the ]ire.seiit article on ^■Euiothim is goinij to press, we have received, 

 throii,y:li the kiiulness ol" Dr. JUewer, a specimen of what appears to be a 

 tliird species oi' yfJf/iofhff.% allied to the ^iJ. Jfdvirostr is of Pkirope, obtained 

 in Walthani, Mass., by Mr. William Brewster, of ( 'ambrid«j;e. This bird 

 was killed in a Hock of ^E. /iiKwius, of which five were also shot at the 

 same discharge. None of the others, nor indeetl of any of ninety specimens 

 prepared by Mr. Brewster during the winter, were at all like tlie present one, 

 which is entirely different from anything we have ever seen from North 

 America. 



The relationship of this bird appears to 1)6 nearest to the yE. flavirostris of 

 Europe, with the 9 of which it agrees in many respects, as distinguished 

 from linarius and cancsvens. The European bird, however, lacks the sul- 

 phur-yellow tinge (which gives it somewhat the appearance of Chrysomitris 

 pinus), has the throat and jugulum strongly reddish-buff, instead of dingy 

 yellowish-white, and is nutch browner above ; besides which the tail is longer 

 and less deeply forked, with narrower feathers. 



Habits. Nothing distinctive was observed by Mr. Brewster in regard to 

 the habits of the specimen killed by him. 



Gk.ms LBUCOSTICTE, Swaixson. 



Leucoatkfe, Sw.\ixson, Fauna Bur. Am. II, 1S31, 265. iType, Limtrla tephrocotis, Sw.) 



Gen. Ch.vh. Bill conical, rounded, rather hlunt at the tip ; the culmen slightly convex ; 

 the commissure slightly concave ; the ncjstrils and hase of commissure concealed by 



Ij'ucosticte tephrocotis. 



depressed hristly feathers ; a depressed ridge extending about parallel with the culmen 

 above the middle of the bill. Another more conspicuously angulated one extending 



