i''i{iNaiM,ii>.fi — TiiK FfxriiKs. 505 



I'rontiil liluckisli piitrli I'xii'iKliii;^ tWnii luisc oC liill (i'.\i'i'|itiii^ llu! lirislly Ci'ulla'i'M iiiiiiie- 

 (liiili'ly acljiK'ciit 111 it), ami ifiu'liiii^' sdint'wlmt licyciml tlic liiii' ol' iln- eyes, willi coii- 

 vl'X outliiic licliind, 1111(1 fxteiiiiiii;,' Ics.- distinctly mi lliu loiai iv^iioii. t'liiii ami liii'oat 

 liaikcr cliL'stimt, iiiil jriayi.-^ii aiiltiicjily. liudy buliiiid dusky; IIk; reathcrs of alHloiiioii 

 and lliuiks wusIilmI, and of I'lissiiiii, luinp, mid iilipfl' tuil-covorU tijipcd, with rosc-rfil ; 

 wiiif,'-(;oVL'rts, and Ik sonic cxlcnl (|uiils, oil;.'c(l with tiif same", olhciwisc with white. 

 Hill ycllowisii, with dusky tip; feel lijai'k. lA'n;,'lli lict'ori- skinning', O.oO; extent, I I.'jO. 

 Skin; Lciijith, (i,r.O; wiii^', •1.30 ; tail, 3.00. 



Yiiiiii;/. Pattern ol' coloration as in Ihc adult of A. le/ilinicolis ; asii similarly restiicted, 

 hut with the lilack liontal patch liadly dcliiicd. The lirowii of tiie pluiiiai,'e, however, is 

 of an eiilircly diU'ciciil slia<lc lioin liiat of adult specimens ol' tcjilirocitlis, l)ein<j of a lilack- 

 ish-sei)ia east, imieli darker, even, than in i/riseiiiiiilut ; each feather also broadly hordered 

 terminally with paler, these borders beiiij; whitish on the throat and breast, brownish on 

 the nape and hack, and light rose (broadly) on the scapnlais. The whole aliiloinen, 

 flunks, and crissum are nearly eontinnously iicach-lilossoni pink, which, with that of the 

 lesser and middle winn;-eoverts and rump, is of a liner and bri;,diter tint than in adults. 

 The other edgings to wings are pale oelnw.'eons ; under side of wing pure while. ]5ill dull 

 yellow, dusky toward tii(. Wing, 1.20; tail, 3.S0. (liU,li;!S, I'iiitah Mountains, L'tah, 

 September liO, 1870; Du. F. V. Havdkn.) 



The young specimen ilcscribotl was obtained during the siininicr of 1871 

 in tlie Uintali Mountains ; and wore it not unniislaiviilily a bird of the year, 

 it would be considered almost a distinct species, .so dill'erent is it from 

 adult specimens of tcphrovotis. 



Habits. Of the history tind habits of this well-marked and strikingly 

 peculiar bird, but little is known. It was tirst described by Swainson from 

 a single specimen, obtained on the Saskatchewan I'lains, in ^lay, by Dr. 

 Eichardson's party. Specimens were afterwards procured in Cai)tain Stans- 

 bury's expedition, near Salt Lake City, Utah, in March, 1850. Dr. Hayden 

 found them very abundant on the Laramie Plains during the winter season, 

 and Mr. Pearsall obtained numbers about Fort lienton. Dr. Cooper has iilso 

 seen one specimen brought from somewhere east of Lake Tahoe, in Washoe, 

 by Mr. R Gruber. They were said to be ])lentiful tliere in the cold winter 

 of 18G1-G2. Dr. Cooper thinks it probable tliat they visit the similar 

 country east of the northern Sierra Nevada, in California. 



A single flock of what is presumed to have been thi;.: species was seen by 

 Mr. liidgway, on the 5tli of January, in the outskirts of Virginia City, Ne- 



tlu^ forehead ; rest of head light chocolati'-hrowii, siiifilar to, but inure faded than, that of the 

 winter phniiage ; nasal tufts grayish-wliite. 



Ten speeimens collected by Mr. Allen all agive in the eharaeters pointed out, by whieli they 

 differ from the winter ]iluniage of L. leplifamtis. Taking into eoiisiileration the fact of their 

 black instead of yellowish bill, more intense red, and generally more dusky colors, as well as 

 the other points of distinction from the previously known plumages of /,. lefjlimmtis, and also 

 that they are identical in size and proportion, while specimens of L. kphrocnlh in the breeding 

 plumage have not before been seen, it seems very reasonable to .su]ppo.se that these specimens 

 rein-eseiit the breeding plumage of that s|iecies. Tliere i.s some resemlilanee to L. brnnncinucha, 

 which, from the plate in Bonaparte anil Sehlegid's monograph of the Coccolhntiuilinw, seems to 

 differ mainly in being lighter eolnred. ilr. Allen says that these birds were breeding abundantly 

 iu the locality where they were found. 

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