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G/IAfE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



around with white; back and sides of neck, lead color, each 

 feather narrowly bordered with brownish black; entire upjur 

 parts, grayish blue, darkest on upper tail-coverts, where tlm 

 feathers are faintly margined with white; tail, pale blue; winj^'s 

 like the back, but with a brownish tinge; the inner webs of the 

 tertials broadly margined with white, and the outer webs of tlmsc 

 nearest the primaries na. rowly margined with yellowish wliitt', 

 forming a horizontal bar when the wing is closed; primaries, 

 brown, grayish on the outer webs; upper part of breast, pale 

 blue; lower part to abdomen, bright buff; flanks, dark chestnut, 

 with a conspicuous white stripe along the shaft; abdomen, black, 

 flanked by bright buff feathers, with a white stripe in the center, 

 bordered with chestnut; vent and under tail-coverts, pale buff 

 with grayish brown central stripe tinged with chestnut ; an up- 

 right plume composed of five or six black feathers, curving for- 

 ward, and the webs turned backward, each overlapping the one 

 behind, rises from the forehead, sometimes bending over the 

 bill; bill, black ; feet and legs, horn color. Total length, lo inclics; 

 wings, 4|; tail, 4i; bill. \\ legs, i^. 



Adult Female. — Differs from the male in having the upper 

 parts tinged with olive-green; top of head, olive-brown; throat. 

 dark buff, streaked with bluish gray; upper part of breast, gray- 

 ish blue, rest of under parts pale buff, the feathers narrowly 

 margined with blackish chestnut; flanks, chestnut with central 

 white stripe ; under tail-coverts, bronzy brown, margined with 

 pale buff; wings as in the male, the tertials less conspicuously 

 margined with white; tail, purplish blue; a short brownish black 

 bunch of feathers rises from top of head, but does not bend for- 

 ward; bill, black; legs and feet, horn color. Total length, 9i 

 inches; wing, 4|, tail, 4^; bill, \\ legs, i^. 



