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perhaps entirely yellow there when mature. Inside of wings and axillara 

 whitish. A white ring round the eye. Bill and legs dusky. 



Length, 5.00 ; extent, 7.25 ; wing, 2.50 when fresh. Dried skin : length, 

 4.90 ; wing, 2.50; tail, 2.20 ; tarsus, .67. 



Of this interesting species, discovered by Dr. Anderson, and 

 named after Mrs. Anderson, but a single specimen was known to 

 collectors, until Dr. Coues obtained it at Fort Whipple, near Pres- 

 cott, in Arizona (Aug. 15, 1864). 



(10,719.) The type uf species. 



Helmintbopliaga luciae. 



Eelminthophaga lucice, CooPER, Pr. Cal. Aoad. July, 1861, 120 (Fort 

 Mohave). 



Hab. Fort Mohave, Colorado River (middle province U. S.). 



General form and size that of ff. ruficapilla. Above light cinereous ; be- 

 neath white, having a soiled, very pale buff, almost white tinge on the throat, 

 breast, and flanks. A patch on the vertex, as in H. ruficapilla, and the upper 

 tail coverts dark chestnut-brown. Lores to nostrils, and region round the eye 

 like the throat, in rather decided contrast to the ash of the crown. Quills 

 and tail feathers brown, narrowly edged externally with gray. An obsolete 

 terminal white patch on the inner web of the outer feather ; this web in most 

 of the other tail feathers likewise narrowly edged with white. Axillars and 

 inner face of wings white. Iris brown. Tarsi blue. 



Length, in life, 4.40 ; extent, 6.90 ; wing, 2.40. Of skin, 3.90 ; wing, 2.33 ; 

 tail, 1.86; tarsus, .64; middle toe and claw, .50; "bill above, .35 ; gape, .50. 



Of this species several specimens were collected at Fort Mohave 

 on the Colorado River, by Dr. Cooper. The species is dedicated to 

 Miss Lucy H. Baird. 



Smith- 

 sonian 

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Collec. 

 tor's 

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Sex 

 and 

 Age. 



Locality. 



When 

 Collected. 



Ft. Mohave, Cal. 



Received from 



Dr. J. G. Cooper. 



(31,892.) A type of the species. 



Collected by 



Helmintliophaga peregrina. 



Sylvia peregrina, WiLs. Am. Om. IV, 1811, 83, pi. xxv, fig. 2.— AuD. 

 Orn. Biog. II, pi. nA.—Sylvicola per. Viic^.—Vermivora per. Bon.— 

 Helinaia per. Ann. B. A. II, pi. IW.—Helmilherus per. Bos 



