224 NOTES ON THE 
SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 
Head with a long crest; above blue, without metallic lustre: 
beneath with a concealed band across the occiput, and a spot 
anterior to the eye, pure white; a band across the breast, and — 
the sides of the body under the wings, like the back; primaries 
white on the basal half, the terminal unspotted; tail with trans- 
verse bands and spots of white. 
Young with the sides of the body, and a transverse band across 
the belly below the pectoral one, light chestnut; the pectoral 
band more or less tinged with the same. 
Length, 12.75; wing, 6; tail short. 
Habitat, North America. 
