882 Descriptions of Nero Sjjecies of Birds. 



of the front and chin, though I thought it to be fully adult. It 

 was left in charge of a bird-dealer in Brooklyn, L. I., from 

 whom I exacted the promise, that in case of its death he would 

 take it to Mr. John Akliurst, to whom I had given directions to 

 preserve the skin. Unfortunately, it died during the summer, 

 but the skin was not saved. 



Therefore, I have had to rely on my notes, which I was 

 pleased to find gave quite a satisfactory account of its plumage. 



The most marked difference from its allies seems to be, the 

 ashy front and chin, and these the dealer assured me did not 

 change at all in colorins; while it lived. 



2. Forniicivoru g^risei;;ulH. 



The upper plumage is of a deep, rather bright, ferruginous ; the front, 

 lores and crown are brownish ; the tail-feathers are dull black, cross(!d with 

 waving bars of very pale dull ferruginous ; these bars are of about half 

 the width of the black interspaces, and are eleven in number ; the quills 

 are dark liver-brown ; their edges and the wing coverts are rufous, like the 

 back ; the inner edges of the quills are of a very pale salmon-color ; the 

 sides of the head are blackish ; the shafts of the ear-coverts are white ; the 

 chin and throat are dark gray, a little lighter in color on the former; the 

 breast, abdomen and under tail-coverts are of a light dull rufous; the bill and 

 feet black. 



Length iskin\ 5^ inches; wing, 2| ; tail, 2|- ; tarsus, | ; bill, f. 

 Habitat , British fkiiana. Tyi)e in my collection. 



Remarhs. — By its general dark coloi'ation, gray throat and 

 barred tail, this bird is readily distinguished from all others of 

 the genus. 



3. Spermopliila parva. 



Female. Upper plumage of a light, warm, earthy-brown, a little deeper 

 in color on the crown, and brighter under and behind the eyes ; the throat 

 is grayish-white ; rest of the under parts of a very light shade of brown, 

 whitish on the middle of the abdomen ; the smaller and middle wing-coverts 

 are dark brown, the latter ending with whitish ; the larger coverts are also 

 dark brown and marginedewith whitish ; quills dark lunber-brown ; the 

 outer tertials edged with light fulvous, the inner with whitish ; tail, umber- 



