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REVIEW OF AMERICAN. BIRDS. 



[part I. 



this involving more than half of the outer feather, or nearly the 

 whole of its exposed portion. 



Young birds differ in having the upper plumage much duller iii.d 

 tinged with ochraeeous ; the feathers, especially of head and rump, 

 waved (most finely on the head) with dusky, the jugulum and breast 

 similarly marked. The tii).s of the greater wing coverts are pale 

 ochraeeous, and, like the lesser, are waved with dusky ; the black 

 cheek stripe is obsolete in front of the eye, excepting a spot at its 

 anterior canthus ; the bill and legs are paler. . i 4 . , ^ ...» 



The dilference between this species and its American allies will 

 be pointed out farther on. It appears to be very closely related to 

 the L. meridionalis of Europe (Temminck, Man. I, 1820, 143; 

 Deqland, Ois. Eur. I, 1849, 384; Bree, Birds Jlurope, I, 1H;M), 

 159, plate, etc.) ; but judging from Degland's description, the hitter 

 differs principally in the vinaceous or rosy tinge of the under parts, 

 and in the rectrices being entirely black at the base. The eye stripe, 

 with its paler upper border anteriorly, and the white markings of 

 the wing appear to be much the same. The length of meridionalis 

 (ten inches) is considerably greater. 



Specimens examined, ten. 



CoUiirio elegans. ' 



LantHS elegans, Sw. F. B. A. II, 1831, 122.— Ncttall, Man. 1, 1840,287. 

 — Cassin, Pr. A. N. So. 1857, 213.— Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 

 327. — Collyrio eleyans, Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, xxxv. 



Ilab. California? . ,- 



Third quill longest ; then 4th and 5th ; 2d between 5th and 6th; 1st about 

 half tlie longest. Bill lengthened and very powerful, as large and strong as 

 that of L. horealis. 



Upper parts dark plumbeous-ash (very much as in L. ludovicianm) ; darkest 

 on head, a little paler perhaps on the lower back and rump (very slightly ami 

 almost inappreciably, however) ; the forehead as dark as, or even darker than 

 the vertex ; the longer scapulars quite white at ends. Beneath bluish-wliite, 

 quite pure on throat and sides of neck, middle of l)elly, and crissuni : the 

 sides of body and the front of breast decidedly bluish ; the axillars, uow- 

 ♦»ver, with their outer webs quite white, their inner more ashy ; the lesser 



