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with sides of body and crissum, buffy-cinnamon, palest on the latter, and 

 profusely sprinkled with dull black tear-shaped spots on the sides of 

 throat, breast, and abdomen. , May be distinguished from G. ludoviciana 

 of same age (which it generally resembles) by the bright ga-vboge-yellow 

 axillars and under wing-coverts. From a specimen in my cabinet ob- 

 tained by Mr. Allen at Nieasio, Cal., June 26, 1878. 



108. Fipilo fuscus crissalis. 



First plumage: male. Wings and tail dark cljve-brown, the wing- 

 bands reddish-fulvous, and the secondaries edged with rusty. Kump 

 bright reddish-brown. Rest of upper parts uniform dull reddish-brown. 

 Beneath light rufous, deepest on crissum, scarcely paler across the breast. 

 Pectoral region and sides anteriorly, faintly spotted with dark reddish- 

 brown. From a specimen in my cabinet taken by Mr. C. A. Allen at 

 Nieasio, Cal., July 2, 1878. 



109. Dolichonyx oryzivorus. 



First plumage. Top and sides of head, with the neck behind, buffy-cin- 

 namon. A post-ocular stripe and two lateral ones on the crown dark- 

 brown ; a few of the feathers with lighter edgings. Rest of upper parts, 

 including the tips of the wing-coverts and the outer margins of the prima- 

 ries and secondaries, brownish-yellow. All the feathers of the interscapular 

 region with broad dark-brown centres. Under parts warm reddish-buff, 

 deepest on breast and throat. A band of faint dusky spots across the 

 breast, and a few nearly obsolete streaks along the sides. From a speci- 

 men in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, collected by Mr. C. J. May- 

 nard, at Newtonville, Mass., June 26, 1878. The autumnal plumage of 

 this species seems to be very early acquired. 



110. Tyrannus verticalis. 



First plumage : male. Above similar to the adult, but with the crown 

 patch entirely wanting, the ash-gray of that part washed with brown, and 

 the back uniform grayish-olive. The wing-coverts are also tipped with 

 brownish-fulvous and the secondaries margined with greenish-yellow. The 

 outer webs of the outer rectrices are yellowish-white. Throat ashy-white ; 

 rest of under parts similar to adult, with the yellow of a deeper shade and 

 extending higher up on the breast. From a specimen in my cabinet col- 

 lected by Mr. C. A. Allen at Mcasio, Cal., July 8, 1878. 



111. Myiarchus cinerascens. 



First plumage. Above olive-gray tinged with brown on the crown. 

 Wing-bands brownish-white. Outer edges of the primaries and most of 

 the secondaries chestnut-brown. Tail-feathers reddish-chestnut, with a 

 dull black longitudinal band next the shaft on both webs of the central 

 pair, and on the outer web of all the rest. Beneath similar to the adult, 

 the ashy on the breast perhaps a trifle deeper. From a specimen in my 

 cabinet taken bv Mr. C. A. Allen at Nieasio. Cal., Ausust 26. 1878. 



