HARPORIIYNCIIUS. 



47 



Locality. 



When 

 Collected. 



Cape St Lucas. 



IS-W. 



SpriDg, '99. 



Received f^om 



Collected by 



J. Xaotus, 



(12,0:»7.) lO.aO. Iris orange. (13,090.) 11.00. Irii orange. 



Ilarporhynnklus lecontei. 



Toxosioma lecontei, L.\WR. Ann. N. Y. Lye. V, Sept. 1851, 109 (Fort 

 Yuma).— //ar/»or/i,ync/iu,« lecontei, Bonap. C. R. XXVIII, 18r)4, 57. — 

 Ib. Notes Delattre, 39.— Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 360, pi. 1. 



Ilab. Gila River ; Fort Yuma. 



The specinum upon which the species was based by Mr. I^awrence, 

 collected at B'ort Yuma, by Dr. Leconte, still rcinains unique, and 

 of H. crissalis a second specimen only has been obtained. It is not 

 a little remarkable that two species so large and conspicuous should 

 be both from the same region, and so very rare. With nuich the 

 same shade of coloration, H. crissalis is a little darker, the under 

 tail coverts deep chestnut instead of rusty fulvous ; the bill is much 

 longer and more slender, the tail also much longer. 



No. 53. Fort Yuma. Cab, of Geo. N. Lawrence. 



Ilarporhynchus crissalis. 



Harporhynchiis crissalis, Henrt, Pr. A. N. So. May, 1858. — Baird, Birds 

 N. Am. 1858, 350, pi. Ixxxii. 



Hub. Regiou of the Oila River, to Rocky Mts. 



A second specimen (11,533) of this rare 'species is larger than the 

 type, but otherwise agrees with it. Its dimensions are as follows: — 



Lenftth before skinning, 12.50; of skin, 12.50; wing, 3.90; tail, (5.50; its 

 graduation, 1.45 ; Ist quill, 1.50 ; 2d, .41 ; bill from forehead (chord of curve), 

 1.65, from gape, 1.75, from nostril, 1.30; curve of culmen, 1 62; height of 

 bill at nostril, .22; tarsus, 1.30; middle toe and claw, 1.12. 



The bill of this species, though not quite so iong as in rcdivivus, 

 when most developed, is almost as much curved, and much more 

 slender — the depth at nostrils being but .22, instead of .26. The 

 Gize of this specimen is equal to the largest of redivivus (3,932) ; the 

 tail absolutely longer. The feet are, however, considerably smaller, 

 the claws especially so ; the tarsus measures but 1.30, instead of 

 1.52; the middle claw .29, instead of .36. With these differences 

 in form, however, it would be impossible to separate the two 

 gcuerically. 



