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List of specimens in United States National Museum. 



CatalogueOriffinal 

 No. 1 'So. 



Sex and 

 ago. 



Locality. 



From whom received. 



30541 



'""'ico' 



-ad. 



— ail. 



— juv. 





Captain J. M. Dow. 



33-'0S 





34603 





J. H. Eeeves. 









Other specimens examined.— In luus. Philad. Acad., D ; Am. Mus.. N. Y., (i : Boston Soc. , 

 6 ; G. N. Lawrence, 5 ; total, 29. 



EEGERHINUS WILSOXI. 



Cijmindis wilsonii Cass. Journ. Ac. N. S. Philad. u. ser. i, 1847, 21, pi. 7. — Gray, Gen. B. 



fol. App. 2 ; Hand List, i, 1869, 28. — Bonap. Cousp. 1850,21. — Strickl. Orn. 



Syn. 1, 1855, 129.— Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii, 18G0, 257.— ScL. & Sal v. Nom. 



Neotrop. 1873, 122. 



Hegerhinns tvilsonii Kaup, Arch. f. Naturo;. 1850, 40.— Brewer, Pr. Boston Soc. N. 



H. 1860, 305.— GUNDL. Journ. f. 0. 1872, 360. 

 Leptodon ivilsoni Sharpe, Cat. Ace. Brit. IMus. 1874, 333. 

 Eegerhinus uncinatus Caban. Jouru. f. Orn. 1854, Ixxx (not of Tenim.). 

 Cymindis uncinatus Brewer, Pr. Boston Soc. N. H. 1860, 305. 



Sal). — Cuba. 



Ciilmeii forming a curve of nearly one-balf the circumference of a cir- 

 cle ; horizontal diameter of the upper mandible scarcely greater through 

 the tomia than near the culmen. Wing, 9.70-10.50 ; tail, 7.50-8.00 ; cul- 

 meu,1.50; tarsus, 1.15-1.25; middle toe, 1.05-1.10. Fifth quill longest; 

 first about equal to the tenth. Adult : — Above, including nape and head 

 all round, bluish-slate, paler and more bluish-ashy on cephalic portions; 

 Ijrimaries darker. Tail black, crossed by four light bauds, the two 

 anterior ones white, the others light ash-gray, the subterminal one much 

 the widest, the terminal one about equal to the others. Beneath white, 

 barred everywhere, except on the crissum, with pale gray anteriorly and 

 umlPfer posteriorly, these bars nearly as wide as the white interspaces. 

 Crissum with the longer feathers narrowly and distantlj' barred. Under 

 surface of the primaries pl'ain white, anterior to their sinuation the 

 terminal i^ortion ashy, with about three distant bands, those on the 

 white being dilute rutbus, and those on the gray blackish. Young : — (I.) 

 Above umber, more or less tinged with ferruginous on the wings, the 

 inner primaries being mostly of this color. Tail brownish-gray, crossed 

 by three distant bands of blackish, these broader and more distinct 

 terminally, the tip being quite broadly and regularly of the ground-color. 

 Near the base are two to three more or less distinct narrow and inter- 

 rupted bands of white. Lower parts, including a collar round the nape, 

 white, the whole surface broadly (more narrowly on the neck, all round, 

 and on the lining of the wing) barred with ferruginous. II. ( very young) : — 

 Above brownish-gray, the feathers bordered terminally with pale rusty; 

 remiges indistinctly banded with darker. Tail ash-gray, becoming grad- 

 ually white at the extreme base, uairowly tipped with the same, and 

 crossed by six narrow bauds of dull black. Head plain pale ashy, 

 becoming gradually white on the throat. Beneath white, distinctly 

 barred, except on the crissum, with narrow lunules of brown. 







List of specimens in United States Xafional Museum. 





Catalogue 

 No. 



Sex and 

 age. 



Locality. 



From whom re- 

 ceived. 



23.550 



cfjuv. 



Monte Verde, Cuba 



. j Charles Wright. 



Olhe)' specimens examined. — In Mns. Philad. Acad., 2. 



