440 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



attention, it being almost exactly similar to ^Iiat of its eastern relative 

 {P. nihrd). Alterwiinls lie continually met Mitli it in wooded portions, 

 ■whether among the willows and cottonwood ol' tlie liver-valleys, or tlie 

 cedars and pinons of the mountains. In ]May, LSllS, among the willows 

 and Imil'alo-berry thickets of the Truckee Valley, near Pyramid Lake, it was 

 very abundant, in company with Grosbeaks and Orioles, feeding upon the 

 buds of the grease-wood (Obione), and later in the sununer among the cedars 

 and nut-i)ines of Ea.st Humboldt Mountains, where the peculiar notes of the 

 young arrested Ids attention, resembling the comjdaining notes of the I>lue- 

 bird, but louder and UKjre distinct. In Sejjtendjer he noticed them feeding, 

 among the thickets bordering the streams, upon the pulpy fruit of the 

 thorn-ap])le (J.'r((tin/iis) tliat grew plentifully in the thickets. To the ea.st- 

 ward it was continually met with, in all wooded portions, as far as they 

 explored. 



In manners it is very similar to the /'. rnbra. The songs of both birds 

 arc very nearly alike, l)eing e(iually tine, l)ut that of this species is more sil- 

 very in tone, and uttered more falteringly. Its usual note ui jjlil-it is quite 

 dilferent from the r/iiji-ii-ffi'-nr of the J\ ruhni. 



He met with their nest and eggs at Parley's Park, Utah, June 0, 1869. 

 The ;iest was on the extreme end of a horizontal branch of a ])ine, in a grove. 

 Hat, and with only a very sliglit depression, having a diameter of four and a 

 half inches, with a height of only au inch. It was composed externally of 

 only a few twigs and dry wiry stems, and lined almost entirely with fine 

 vegetable rootlets. 



The eggs, usually three in number, lueasure .Do by .06 of an inch. In 

 form they are a roundeil-oval. Their ground-color is a light bluish-green, 

 sparingly speckLnl, chielly at the larger end, with marking of umber, inter- 

 mingled with a few dots of lilac. 



Pjrringa hepatica, Swainsok. 



ryi;ni(,a /iqio/i,;,, Swains,, n, I'liil. Mmj;. 1, l,s-J7, 124. — .S.i.atki!, IV Zolil. Soc. 18,-,(i, 

 124. - liAHio, Hints N. .\m. IS.VS, ;i(i2, pi. xxxi. — Ki-.NNiati.v, lai. — HoMnvAV, Pr. 

 A. X. .S. LSUit, Ki-i. — CoDi'i:!;, Oni. (',,1. I, 1870, 144. P/wn im.mmti //.■/m/icn, V.\n. 

 Mils, lli'iii. 1S,")1, L'.'i. J'ifmiiijtKn'inv, \Vii,,i)iii)usi:, Sitgii'iivo'-s Expl. Zuiii, 1853, 82 

 (not of iitlu'i- iiiitliors). 



Si-. CiiAii. '• L,'ii,rtli. S.od"; win!.'. 4.12; tail. :!..'!(i; ciiliiH'n. .(W; tarsus. ..^1. Sucoml (luill 

 ioiiL:,'-t. Ili-st iiitfniii;,li;it,. 1m.|\v,m'11 foiirlli iiiiil lillli. Pill soiin'wliiit sli,,i-t,T tlinn that of 

 wsli'r.i, liui, li|-,)iiii;T 1111(1 lii;_'lioi- lU tlie liasc, liciMiniim' ,'om|iivssi.| l,),v;irl llic cii,! ; ii di.s- 

 tiiict iimiiiiiiiMit tixilh on ooiniiiissnn'; its ciil.ir ]iliMnlM',)ns-l,l!i,'l<, piilcr. ,)r iiidiv hhn'sli ])lnni- 

 bcoiLs on lower iiiiiiiilililc. ^^lll'■. Ilea,! aliov,' l,r,iwiiisli-iv,i, purer aut,'ri,irlv ; ivst of up- 

 per parts all,] si,|i's l,rowiiis|i-asliy. tiii.t't'ii with r.Mi,|isli ; clyvs ,,r |)riiii.-iri,'s, tipper tail- 

 coverts ami tail, luoic iv,|,|isli. li.'ui'atli. nu'ijially, line li'j-lit scarlet, most iiilense on tlie 

 throat, frrowinjj- frrailually paler posteriorly. Lores ami orliilal region grayish-while ; eyo- 

 liil.s pal,'-reil; ear-eoverts ashy-reil. 



