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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



the Sylviidse in the sharp-ridged culmen and bristly gape, but is 

 otherwise very different. The excessively rounded wing is a peculiar 

 feature, the sixth primary being the longest. 



The family may, perhaps, be best placed between the Sylviidse and 

 Paridee. 



CHAMiEA, Gambei.. 

 Chamma, Gambel, Pr. A. N. Sc. Ill, 1847, 154. (Type Parus fasciatus.) 



Bill much shorter than head, conical compressed. Culmen much curved ; 

 gonys less so. Nostrils linear, covered and nearly hidden by an incumbent 

 scale, as in some Wrens. Wings much rounded, about two-thirds the tail ; 

 the 6th primary longest ; the 3d equal to the secondaries. Tail very long and 

 much graduated, the lateral feathers not two-thirds the central ; feathers nar- 

 row, with narrow outer webs. 



The genus, as far as known, embraces but a single species. 



Cbamaea fasciata. 



Pans fasciatus, Gambel, Pr. A. N. Sc. Aug. 1845, 265 (California). — 

 Chamsea fasciata, Gambel, Pr. A. N. Sc. Ill, 1847, 154. — Ie. J. A. 

 N. Sc. 2d series, 1, 1847, 34, pi. viii, fig. 3.-^Cabanis, Wiegmann's 

 Arehiv, 1848, I, 102.— Cassin, lUust. I, 1863, 39, pi. vli.— Baikd, 

 Birds N. Am. 1858, 870. 



Hab. Coast region of California. 



(5,924, % , California.) Total length, 6.20 ; wing, 2.30 ; tail, 3.50, gradua- 

 tion, 1.20; exposed portion of 1st primary, .85. of 2d, 1.30, of longest, 6th 

 (measured from exposed base of 1st primary), 1.80 ; length of bill from fore- 

 head, .52, from nostril, .30 ; along gape, .60 ; tarsus, 1.05 ; middle toe and claw, 

 .78 ; claw alone, .23 ; hind toe and claw, .55 ; claw alone, .30. 



Locality. 



When 

 Collected. 



Received from 



Collected by 



Califoraia. 

 Saci-amento Valley. 

 Sta. Clara, Cal. 

 FurtTejon, Cal. 

 San Diego, Cal. 



Sept. 1857. 

 Dec. 5, '61. 



S. F. Baird. 

 Lt. Williamson. 

 Dr. Cooper. 

 John Xantus. 

 Geol. Surv. Cal. 



Dr. Gambel. 

 Dr. Heermaun. 



Dr. Cooper. 



3,339. Type specimen. (31,890) 6.60; 7.12; 2.25. "Iris white.' 



