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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIUDS. 



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perhapfl entirely yellow there when mature. Inside of wings and axillari 

 whitish. A white ring round the eye. Hill and legs dusky. 



Length, .'). 00 ; extent, 7.2.') ; wing, 2.{)0 when fresh. Dried skin: length, 

 4.90; wing, 2.5U; tail, 2.20; tarsus, .(j7. 



Of this interesting species, discovered by Dr. Anderson, and 

 named after Mrs. Anderson, but a single specimen was known to 

 collectors, until Dr. Couea obtained it at Fort Whipple, near I'm. 

 cott, in Arizona (Aug. 15, 1864). 



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No. 



10,719 

 3«,977 



Collec- Sex 

 Km'h II nd 



No. I Ago. 



fi»2 



Locality. 



Vt. Biirgwyn, N. M. 

 ft. Whipple, ArU. 



When 

 Collected. 



Received from 



iDr. W. W. Aiider- 



Aug. 19, '64. Ur. E. Cuues, [xon. 



[0 8. A. 



Collected by 



Dr, W. W. AnJoi. 

 Dr. Cones, [mid. 



(10,71».) The type of apeoiet. 





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Ilelminthophaga luciae. 



Hdminthophaga lucice, Cooper, Pr. Cal. Acad. July, 1861, 120 (Fort 

 Moha\re). 



Hub. Fort Mohave, Colorado River (middle province U. S.). 



General form and size that of H. rujicapilla. Above light cinereous : be- 

 neath white, having a soiled, very pale buflF, almost wliite tinge on the throat, 

 breast, and flanks. A patch on the vertex, as in //. mjirapiUa, and the upper 

 tail coverts dark chestnut-brown. Lores to nostrils, and region round the eve, 

 like the throat, in rather decided contrast to the ash of the crown. Qiiillj 

 and tail feathers brown, narrowly edged externally with gray. An obsolete 

 terminal white patch on the inner web of the outer feather ; this web in most 

 of the other tail feathers likewise narrowly edged with white. Axillara aud 

 inner face of wings white. Iris brown. Tarsi blue. 



Length, in life, 4.40 ; extent, 6.90 ; wing, 2.40. Of skin, 3.90 ; wing, 2?^3; 

 tail, 1.86; tarsus, .64; middle toe and claw, ,50; bill above, .35 ; gape, .5(1, 



Of this species several specimens were collected at Fort Mohave, 

 on the Colorado River, by Dr. Cooper. The species is dedicated to 

 Miss Lucy H. Baird. 



(31,892.) A type of the species. 



Helininthophaga peregrina. 



Sylvia peregrina, WiLS. Am. Orn, IV, 1811, 83, pi. xxv, fig. 2.—Mr>. 

 Orn. Biog. II, pi. 154. — Sijhicola per. Rich. — Vermivora per. Bos - 

 Helinaia per. Add. B. A. II, pi. 110.— Helrnilherus per, Bo.v.- 



