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170 NEW-YORK FAUNA — BIRDS. 
Description. Second and third primaries longest, subequal; the second slightly longest. 
Tail deeply emarginate, almost forked, extending 1*2 beyond the tips of the closed wings. 
Color. Bill brownish black above ; lighter beneath. Fore part of the back streaked with 
brown. Wings and tail deep brown ; the quills tipped and edged with red. Frontlet cream- 
colored. All the rest of the body of a rich crimson. In the change, a line of lighter crimson 
over the eye ; outer webs of quills dull red for two-thirds of their length : vent and under 
tail-coverts streaked with brown. Female, in the State Collection, wholly olive above, striped 
with white and dusky; beneath grey-white, with arrow-headed spots of brown : a lighter 
line above and below the eye. Male of the first year, differs from the female only in the 
bright olive-yellow of the rump and chin, and a slight degree of the same on the wing-coverts ; 
the tail-feathers also are edged externally with olive. 
Length, 5 - 5-6 - 0. Alar spread, 9*0-9 - 3. 
This species I have seen in the Atlantic district of this State, as late as November, De¬ 
cember and January. Audubon met with it in the northern district in June, when it was 
breeding. They leave us in May for the north. The eggs are bright green. It feeds on 
buds and the berries of evergreens in winter, and on insects in summer. It has a good flavor. 
Its geographical range is from Mexico to 55° north latitude. It occurs on the Columbia river. 
{EXTRA-LIMI TAL.) 
E. frontalis. (Aud. Vol. 3, p. 175, pi. 197.) Greyish brown. Forehead, band over the eye, throat, 
breast and rump carmine. Head, hind neck and anterior part of the back slightly tinged with 
red. Rare. Length, 6i inches. Rocky mountains. According to Mr. Giraud, it is numerous in 
Texas. 
E. tephrocotis. (In. Ib. pi. 198.) Umber brown. Head ashen grey, spotted with black. Feathers 
of the wings and rump broadly edged and tipped with rose-red. Very rare, Length, 6 inches. 
Northern regions. 
