502 



NOUTII AMERICAN BIRDS. 



feathers narrowly skirted with wliilisli siilpliiir-ycllow. A dusky loral spot, nnd n rntlier 

 distinct iifjlitcr supcMviiiary stripe. Wiiij?, 3.(10 ; tail, 2.50; tnrsiis, ..^O ; iniddio toe, .30. 

 Winfj-foriiiMlii, 1, '2, 3, etc. 

 Hah. Massiu'husetts. 



As tlie present article on yEyiothiis is goin<r to press, we have received, 

 tlnou<j;li the kindness of Dr. Ikewer, a specimen of wliat appears to be a 

 tliird si>ecies ul'.fJr/iofJins, ullit.'d to the .K. Jtavlrosfr is of Europe, obtained 

 in Waltlmni, Mass., by Mr. William Brewster, of Cambridge. Tiiis bird 

 was killed in a flock of yE. linarius, of which five were iilso shot at the 

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

 prepared by ISIr. Brewster dnring the winter, were at all like the present one, 

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

 America. 



The relationship of this bird ajipears to be nearest to the uE. flavirostrvi of 

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

 from linarius and cancsccns. 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 redci sh-buff, instead of dingy 

 yellowish-wliite, and is nnich browner above ; besides which the tail is longer 

 and loss deeply forked, with narrower feathers. 



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

 the habits of the specimen killed by him. 



Uknus LEUCOSTICTB, Swainso;; 

 Leimsticlc, Sw.UNsnx, Fauini 15or. Am. II, 18:?!, 265. (Typo, Limiria tephrocnth, Sw.) 



("iKN-. CiiAH. Bill conicid, roimdod, ratliL'r l.liiiit at the tip ; the oidmen slightly convex ; 

 the commissure .slightly concave; the nostrils and 'la.se of commissure concealed by 



Ij-iicoslirte Irphrocotis 



deprcs.sed hristly feathers ; a depressed ridge exten.ling about parallel with the culmen 

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



