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1857, 213.— ScLATKR, p. Z. 8. 18«J4, 173 (City of M«xico).— CV/^no 



exruliitoi aides, Uaiud, IMuIa N. Am. 1858, !i'27. 

 t LuniuH tnexicaiiua, Hkeiim. tab. Jour. II, 18.04, 145. — Sclateb, Catal. 



1801, 4fi (Mexico). 

 Lanius luiiovicianus, Max. Cab. Jour. 1868, 191 (Upper Mlesouri). 



Hah. Western province of North America, as far north as California ; Middle 

 North America, to the Saskatchewan, and east to Wisconsin, Micliigan and 

 lliinois; Houth to Orizaba and Oaxaca, and City of Mexico; Cape St. Lucas. 



(No. 38,423 f % ; Laramie Peak.) Graduation of tail rather less than ono- 



fourth of its total length. Fourth quill longest; 3d scarcely eliortt-r ; then 



the 5th ; 2d longer than t)th ; exposed portion of Ist about half that of longHst. 



Above pure light bluish-ash ; beneath, including axillara, pure unbroken 



white. A very narrow frontal Hue with all th« nasal feathers, and cnntinu- 



, ' oas with a broad stripe 

 through and behind eye, 

 involving entire ear cov- 

 erts, with the wings and 

 tail, bill and feet, deep 

 black (the lesser wing 

 coverts, however, like the 

 back) ; the cheek stripe 

 extending narrowly 

 above tlie eye and 

 broadly below it, and 

 not varied with white 

 on the lower eyelid. 

 The forehead and side 

 of vertex in contact with 

 the black stripe, as 

 far as posterior border 

 of eye, hoary, almost 

 ' pnre white, shading oflF quite abruptly into the ash of head ; the scapnlar 

 feathers, where they overlap the wings, as well as upper tail coverts, similarly 

 white, and shading into the adjacent ash ; the coverts, however, slightly 

 glossed with ashy, especially above. The tips of the secondary quills, and 

 a conspicuous patch across the base of the primaries (visible externally in 

 the closed wing) are white ; this involves both webs of the primaries (except 

 perhaps the 1st), and extends about as far as the tip of the 1st primary, 

 occupying more and more space from the outer to the middle quills. Tlie 

 secondaries are edged internally, as well as tipped with white ; this color 

 usually mixed with grayish, occupying rather the larger portion of the web 

 towards the base, but not abruptly defined as in the primaries, and only 

 reaching the shaft at the extreme base, 8nd that obliquely. Outer two tail 

 feathers entirely white, except a wash of dusky along the shaft (greatest in 

 extent on the 2d feather) ; the 3d feather is white with rather more than the 

 central third black; the fourth feather is black, with the extreme base and 



Collyrio exctihitnrnides, Baird. (Laramie Peak.) 

 (All tbe figures tliree-fuurlhs natural size.) 



