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wliilc. Stript's oil llic dunks li'sr< ilisiincl (ir ncavly iilisolih'. Puirnii ijiminj: (Slossy lilack, llic 

 iiu'dial lower parts riili;,'iiions ; lliroal and clucks iiitcisi>rrM(l with silvery wliilc liaiis ; liill 

 yi'llowi'li (rr<l in life V) rinsscd almiit tlic iniddlf liy a dusky liar. 



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This s|ieci(s inucli ii'seiiiliies liie Moor-hrii, AVatci-lun. or (ialliiiiile ol' l']iir(i|ir ((.'. rlilnrnjiKu), 

 lull is lai>;<'r, has llic t'idiilal shield tiuiii'ated instead nl' pointed iioslcrioily, and is otherwise did'erent. 

 Il likewise icseinlilcs other exotic .species, particularly <!. (Idnniiiii of the I'eruviau Andes, hut is 

 c|uile distinct. S]iccinii'iis v.iry a i,'rcal deal in the size and slmjie of the I'rontal shield, and in the 

 aiiKiunI ol' white oil the alidoiucn. Thesis v.iriations are liy l.o ineans depeiuh'iil on locality, how- 

 ever, hut upon the indiviiliial, havini; doiihtless soiiu! coiiiieetioii with a;;e and season, tin; white on 

 llic alidoineii liciiii; more iinukcil on winter spcciiueiis. 



Tlic liiiliits mill till- tli.striliiilidii of ^liis .s]M'ci(>s, mon^ os]H'{'iiilly the lalfcr. liave 

 liii'ii very iiiiiicrlVetly Uikiwii, ainl very iiicorreetly ,i,mv('1i. W'ilsMi a|)p('iirs to liavc 

 lireii imiiwarf (d' its cxisti'iici'. .Vinliilimi r('i,Mnl('(l it, as idciitieal with the l'air()])caii 

 MiiDi-hcii. ami as an cxidiisivcly soiitlicrii species — a lew ini.Lrriitiiij,' to Carolina on 

 the east — and tlmn.Ljlit tiiat those I'oiinil on tiie fresh wateis of the niiddie districts 

 wi'ie only sti'a;j;j^lers. It was said not i,o ascend the Mississip]ii aliove TS'atidicz, and 

 iiiit to ho sciMi in tiie western eonnlry. >;nttail. wiiile reeoLtni/.in,i;' its distiiu-tnoss as 

 a s])eeies i'roiM fi. r/i/oro/nis ol' iMirope. calls it, the I'Morida (lallinnle — a iiainc ealeu- 

 lalcd to perpetnatf the wroii;,' impression existino; as t(> its distrilml ion — ami speaks 

 id' it as "iinkmiwn in Canada." I'^veii .Mr. Cassin, in the ninth volume ol' the " raeifu; 

 Kailroad Keiiorts."' assij^ns to it a. lialiitat exidiisividy southern, and eonsiders it 

 as only aeeidental in the Middle and Northern States — inakiii.i;' no mentit)n ol' its 

 aliendant pre.senec liotli in the Northwestern States and on the coast of (!aliroriiia. 

 Instead of being known as the I'Morida (Jallinnle. it deserves the more compridiensive 

 title of Anniriean (iallimile. It is alnindaid, in South Anieriea from Panama to tlio 

 rcj,Mon of the La I'lata. in the West India Islands, in Central America, in the Southern 

 dull' States from South Carolina to the Mississi|)|ii. and jiroliably to Mexico, on tli(> 

 California (ioast, and in the re.icion of the (ireat Lakes, both on the Amorican and 

 th(! ('anadiaii shores. 



Professor Newton found it a common and resident sjieeies in St. Croix. While it 

 I los(dy resembles the Kuropean r/i/Drojnis in its appearanet>, and while the habits of 

 the two birds a,p])ear to be identieally the same, their eggs ev(Mi being undistinguish- 

 ahlo from oiteli other, the tiotos of the two birds are very difforont. This (Jalliiuile 

 liroeds in St. Croix in .\pril, and also in C!uba, where it is abundant. Mr. Marcli 



