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99. Cinclus mezlcanus. 

 First plumage. Above clear plumbeous-ashy, not darker on the heafl 

 or neck ; primaries and secondaries tipped with white ; greater wing-i'ov- 

 erts edged with pale rufous. Beneath pale whitish-fulvous, strongly tinged 

 with purplish brown on the crissum ; throat immaculate ; rest of under 

 parts transversely barred with obscure plumbeous. Bill and feet (in the 

 dried specimen) brownish-yellow. From a specimen in my cabinet taken 

 by Mr. C. A. Allen in Blue Canon, Sierra Nevada Mountains, Cal., June 



10, 1878.. 



100. Lophophanes inornatus. 



First plumage. Above similar to the adult, but with a decided brown- 

 ish tinge, especially on the interscapular region. Beneath dull ashy- 

 white, only slightly darker upon the crissum and across the breast. From 

 a specimen in my collection taken by Mr. C. A. Allen at Oakdale, Cal., 

 June 17, 1878. 



101. Farus carolinensis. 



First plumage : female. Similar to the adult, but with the black of the 

 crown and throat less glossy, the back more strongly tinged with olive, 

 and the sides of the body slightly washed with pinkish-salmon. Distin- 

 guishable from atricapillus of the same age by the deeper, more glossy black 

 of the crown and throat, by the absence of white margining on the second- 

 aries, and by the sharper defined and more convex posterior outline of the 

 black throat. From a. specimen in my cabinet, collected at Mount Car- 

 mel. 111., May 8, 1878. This bird, though apparently fully feathered, was 

 taken from a brood of five young that had not left the nest. 



102. Helmiuthophaga celata lutescens. 

 Autumnal plumage : young. Above intense olive-green, brightest on 

 the rump, and obscured on the interscapular region by a washing of a 

 neutral tint. Beneath greenish-yellow, tinged with obscure olive on the 

 sides. No trace of rufous on the crown. From a specimen in my col- 

 lection taken by Mr. C. A. Allen at Nicasio, Cal., August 2, 1878. Mr. 

 Ridgway, in proposing the name obscura for a dark form of this species 

 from the Southern States, says (B. B. & R., Birds of N. Amer., Vol. I, 

 p. 202), that all the specimens before him from Georgia and Florida "lack 

 any trace whatever of orange on the crown." I think his specimens must 

 all have been females or immature birds, as an adult male before me, col- 

 lected at St. Mary's, Ga., April 7, 1877, has the crown patch of exception- 

 ally bright orange-rufous. 



103. Myiodioctes pusillus pileolatus. 

 Autumnal plumage : young female (?). Similar to the adult, but with the 

 black pileum nearly obscured by a greenish-olive wash and the coloring 

 generally even more intense. From a specimen in my cabinet collected by 

 Mr. C. A. Allen at Nicasio, Cal., August 3, 1878. Another young bird 

 (Nicasio, Cal., August 1, 1876), which apparently still retains portions 



