Tuckerman's Lichens of New England. 93 
First primary shortest, third and fourth longest. Color, Top 
of head, cinereous black. Hind head, nape, along the super- 
ciliary ridges to the base of the bill, scarlet. A patch of the 
same from the base of the lower mandible along the ramus to 
the angle of the lower jaw. Space between the eye and bill, 
and extending under the eye to the side of the neck, greyish, 
with darker bars, growing more distinct towards the neck. 
Chin black, spotted with white. Neck, breast, abdomen, up- 
per and under. tail coverts and flanks, olive, transversely 
barred with yellowish white. Back, upper wing coverts, outer 
edge of secondaries, and outer edge of primaries, olive. Two 
outer tail feathers- yellowish, others black with some yellow 
the upper part. Iris hazel. Legs bluish. Bill horn- 
color. 
This bird resembles P. Brasiliensis very closely, but. differs 
from it in having the top of the head cinereous black inst 
of scarlet. 
Ast. VI.—A FURTHER ENUMERATION OF SOME ALPINE AND 
oe LICHENES OF NEW ENGLAND. By Epwarp Tuckerman, 
.M. 
AFTER some years study of the Lichens of our alpine dis- 
Victa, the writer has attempted to give a synopsis, with 
descriptions, of the lichenose vegetation generally, whether 
al ne or not, of the White Mountains. From this the fol- 
lowing observations are drawn, as well as (with one excep- 
tion) the subjoined list of new or rare lichens. It need hardly 
sald that scarcely any of the results to be noticed are more 
than approximate ; and that time only can show how many of 
are not in some degree or other erroneous. New facts 
vec Continually, illustrating either genera or species ; there 
5 very much unsettled in all the scientific arrangements of the 
Order ; and though I may attempt to state definitely the little 
