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shoot it himself, but received it ^vith other Mniotiltidfe from a man of the 

 name of Ogden, who shot it at Howard's raucho, on the river Medina. 



These three specimens are all that have hitherto been obtained, so far as 

 I know, by any naturalist. The two shot by myself are neither of them quite 

 in fully adult plumage, thouoh the female is perhaps so. The male has not 

 assumed the wholly black back seen in Mr. Dresser's Texan specimen, 

 which doubtless represents the full breeding-plumage of this handsome 

 species. 



Some misstatements have been made respecting the number of specimens 

 of this species. Mr. Sclater at one time attributed a second specimen in Mr. 

 Dresser's collection to D. chrysoparia ; but on further examination this proved 

 to be a young male of the common D. virens. 



Again, in Messrs. Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway's recently published work 

 on North- American birds (vol. i. p. 261), I find it stated that the species 

 Avas originally described from a single specimen obtained in Guatemala by 

 myself, and that I subsequently obtained another pair on the highest point 

 of the road between Salami and Tactic. From what I have already said it 

 will be observed that the " single specimen " here referred to never existed. 

 They also state that specimens of this species were captured at San Antonio, 

 Texas, by Dr. Ileermann, and on the Medina river by Mr. Dresser. Only 

 one, however, was really taken at the latter place, viz. that already mentioned. 

 At one time a closely allied species, D. occidentaUs, was mistaken for this 

 bird ; but the synonymy, both of these and their allies D. virens and 

 D. townsencU, have been correctly given by recent writers who have had 

 occasion to refer to them. 



The latest and most ample, as well as correct, account of the four allied 

 species just enumerated will be found in Messrs. Baird, Brewer, and 

 Ridgway's work above named. 



The Plate accompanying these notes includes representations of the 



