TANAGUID.E - TIIJ-; TANAGEUS. ^^g 



diilerent n-om the throat, and abruptly light.T tlmn tl>e hack, wluH,, with the vi„.'s 

 and ta,I .8 of a ,nuch lighter dusky-r...! than m asNva ; ...xposcl ,i,,.s of pri.Marios pun- 

 slaty-umber, i.rimaries faintly „,arf,'in..d toriuinally with paler (in ti,e lyp,. thi. einr- 

 acter IS not apparent, owin- to the leathers bein.i,' .somewhat worn; in o,h,.r sp-rimens 

 however, ,1 is ,pnte a nuti,.eable feature, alti,o„Kh possibly not to be <.n(irely relied on)! 

 Female Above orange-olivaeeon.s, beneath mor,. lif^d.t yellowish, purest n.e.lially; cris- 

 suni noher yellow than other lower parts, being in some individ.ials (voun- males?) 

 nitense Imlian-yellow, with the i.mer webs of the tail-leathers murgi.ied with the sa.ue ; 

 quite distinet line of oranf;e-yellow over the lores. 



Had. Upper Hio Grande and Colorado region of Southern Middle Province; south in 

 winter, along Pacific coast of Mexico as far as Colinia. 



This bird, quite different from Eastern ccstiva, is. however, probably only a 

 representative form of the .same species in the Colorado ami Upper Hio 

 Grande region, migrating south in winter, through ^Vcstern Mexico to 

 Colima, as specimens from Texas and Middle Mexico appear to be quite 

 intermediate, at least in form. 



HABIT.S. This is a new form, whose claim to distinctness was first made 

 k.,own by Mr. liidgway, in 1800. In appearance, it most resembles the F 

 (estiva, but IS larger. It has been found in the Middle Province of the United 

 States, from Fort Mohave at the nortli, to Colinui and Mazatlan in Mexico 



Dr. Cooper found this bird quite common near Fort .Afohave, after Ai)ril 

 25, m the Colorado Valley, latitude :ir/. They chiefly frequented the tall 

 Cottonwood, feeding on insects, and occasionally Hew down to the Lnrm 

 bushes after a kind of bee found on them. He states also that they have 

 a call-note sounding like the words ke-M; which, in the laiigua-e of the 

 Mojave Indians, signiKes " come here." They sing in a loud, clear "tone and 

 in a style much like that of the Hobin, but with a power of ventriloquism 

 which makes the sound appear much more distant than it really is. The 

 only specimens of this species known to have been obtained in tlie United 

 States were taken tit Los Pinos, New Mexico, by Dr. Coucs, and at Fort 

 Mohave by Dr. Cooper. Other specimens have been procured from Western 

 Mexico. 



