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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



Dendroica gra^ise. 



Dendroica gracice, CoCES, MSS. 

 Hab. Fort Whipple, near Prescott, Arizona. 



' (No. 36,988, % ?) Bill shorter than the head ; gonys slightly convex. Color 

 of upper parts, with sides of neck, ash-gray ; the middle of back, and less 

 conspicuously, the upper tail coverts, streaked with black. A line fron 

 nostrils to above the eye (passing into white for a short distance behind it), 

 eyelids, a orescentic patch beneath the eye, the chin, throat, and centre of 

 jugulum, bright yellow ; the rest of under parts, including inside of wing, 

 axillars, and tibise, white ; the border of the yellow, and the sides of body 

 str«aked with black. A line from bill, through the eye, the cheeks (in- 

 closing the yellow crescent), the sides of the vertex, the forehead, and 

 the centres of feathers on top of head, blackish. Wings and tail blackisL, 

 the outer edges of the larger feathers pale bluiah-gray ; two white bands 

 across the wing coverts. Lateral tail feather white, except the inner web at 

 extreme base, the shaft, and a narrow streak at the end of the outer web; 

 the next feather similar, but the basal blackish extending farther along 

 3d feather with edge of outer web, and a wedge-shaped patch in end of inner 

 web, only, white. 



Autumnal specimens similar ; the black markings less distinct ; the back 

 tinged with olivaceous. 



Very young birds do not differ materially from the adult, showing nothinj 

 of the spotting and mottling of the Tnrdidm. 



Total length (fresh specimen before being skinned), 5.00 ; expanse of wing?, 



8.00. Total length (prepared specimen), 4.60; wing, 2.75 ; tail, 2.30; length 



' of bill from forehead, .50, from nostril, .30; along gape, .56; tarsus, .65: 



middle toe and claw, .52^ daw alone, .16; hind toe and claw, .40; claw 



alone, .19. 



This interesting new species, recently discovered in Arizona, by 

 Dr. Coues, and named by hira after a member of his family, i- 

 almost exactly like D. nigrescens in the color and markings of tlio 

 back (with its blackish interscapular streaks), wings, and tail, a^ 

 well as of the under parts, except that the chin and throat are 



