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EEVIEW OP AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



men described is said to have probably come from California, though 

 possibly from Peru. 



I do not feel warranted in changing Lafresnaye's name, though 

 it will not be at all surprising to find that he had quite a different 

 species from the North American bird before him. It may be that 

 Gould's species guttatus belongs more particularly to the latter. 



(3,966.) Eyes reddish-yellow. 8.00 ; 10.75; 3.60. (31,894.) 8.00; 11.50; 3.75. Iris blood-red. 



Campylorliynctaus affinls. 



Campylorhynchus affinis, Xantus, Pr. A. N. So. 1859, 298 (Cape St. 



Lucas).— Baied, Pr. A. N. Sc. 1859, 303.— ScL. Catal. 1861, 17, 



no. 108. 

 Not figured. 



Bab. Only obseived at Cape St. Lucas, Lower California. 



Cap of head reddish-brown ; the concealed centres of feathers dusky. Rest 

 of upper parts grayish-brown, all the feathers of body and scapulars with 

 broad central or shaft streaks of whitish edged with black; the streaks 

 irregular in outline, on some featliers nearly linear. In others widening at 

 intervals along the shaft. Outer webs of the wing feathers crossed by about 

 seven rows of whitish semicircular spots, with corresponding series of more 

 circular ones on the inner web. Tail feathers black, all of them with a series 

 of about eight quadrate white spots on each web, which are alternate to each 

 other, not opposite, and extend from or near the black shaft to the edge ; the 

 extreme tips of the feathers black ; the two central feathers, however, more 

 like the back, with irregular mottling of grayish and black. Upper tail coverts 

 barred transversely with black. 



Under parts white, faintly tinged with rusty posteriorly; each feather 

 spotted with black, excepting on the immaculate chin. These spots are rather 

 larger and more quadrate on the jugulum, where they are sometimes on the 

 sides of the feathers (on one or both sides) ; posteriorly, however, they are 

 elongated or tear-shaped, and strung along the shaft, one or two on each. On 

 the orissum they are large and much rounded, three or four on each longer 

 feather. Legs rather dusky. Bill lead color, pale at the base below • " iris 

 reddish-brown." A broad white stripe from bill over the eye and nape 

 edged above and below with black ; line behind the eye like the crown ; cheek 

 feathers white, edged with blackish. 



Immature specimens exhibit a tendency to a whitish spotting in the ends 

 of the feathers of the cap. A very young bird does not, however, diff'er ma- 



