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and superciliary region grayish-white ; rest of cheeks speckled with brownish. 

 The blackish ground color of upper surface of wings almost concealed by the 

 broad edgings of yellowish-brown, varying in shade of color, and becoming 

 much paler on the outer primaries, inner secondaries, and greater wing coverts. 

 Tail feathers dark-brown ; the outer brownish or soiled white on the outer web, 

 and on the inner web along the shaft from near the base, widening to the end 

 so as to embrace the tip ; next feather with outer web and a short terminal 

 streak only white, the remaining feathers narrowly edged externally with the 

 same. Bill dusky, except at base below ; legs flesh color. 



Total length, 5.70 ; wing, 2.95 ; tail, 2.65 ; difference between 3d and 5th 

 quills, .10 ; between 3d and 6th, .36 ; length of bill from forehead, .56, from 

 nostril, .35; along gape, .65; tarsus, .90; middle toe and claw, .75; claw 

 alone, .22 ; hind toe and claw, .96 ; claw alone, .52. 



A specimen (26,362) which was sold to Dr. Leidy, as from western 

 North America, is scarcely distinguishable in any respect, except the 

 purer white of tail and rather paler colors ; and I am inclined to 

 think that it really came, like the preceding bird, from Uruguay, as 

 it is of precisely the same "make up" of skin, and was obtained 

 from the father of the collector (Chr. Wood), who accompanied 

 Capt. Page. It is, however, proper to state that a brother of this 

 sam« collector (W. S. Wood) obtained many specimens of birds 

 from the plains east of the Rocky Mountains ; and if the bird in 

 question really came thence, it will be necessary to introduce the 

 species into the Fauna of North America. 



This species is quite similar in external appearance to Neocorys 

 spraguei, and of about the same size. The wings are, however, 

 considerably shorter and more rounded ; the point of the wing 

 formed by five, not four quills. The legs are much the same. There 

 is a much greater preponderance of reddish-brown on the upper 

 parts, and of buff below ; the axillars are brownish, not grayish- 

 white, and there is miuch less white (and of less purity) on the tail. 



