Parrot Finches. 
breast and upper abdomen ultramarine -blue ; rump, and upper tail- 
covcrts scarlet; tail-feathers, dusky browu with dulT red outer webs. 
Tola,] length 4 inches, tail l^. 
Habltal. ' Timor." B.M.C., Vol. XIII. 
Klkinsciimidt's Parrot Finch {E. lclcinschn>ifVi) . 
Descriptions. "Front, forepart of cheeks to the posterior edge 
of thf eye, and chin black ; vertex obscure blue ; upper-surface dark 
" grass-green, the same as the outer edges of the remiges, which are black- 
" ish-brown like the tail feathers ; upper tail-coverts splendid scarlet- 
" red ; undcr-parts grass-green, much brighter and lighter than the upper 
" parts : ear-region bright greenish yellow ; under wing-coverts isabel- 
" line ; bili and fett ivory -j'cllow in the skin, in the living bird apparently 
"flesh-coloured; nails dark brown. Total length 4 inches, culmen 0.6, 
"wing 2.5, tarsus 0.85." 
"Hahitai. Viti Leon, Fiji Islands." B.M.C. Vol. XIII. 
The foregoing desci'iptions with tlie exception of cyano- 
virens and kleinschmidfi, which are fjom the " British Museum 
Catalogue," are either from skin.s or life as under: — 
prasma, ps'dtacea, pealii, and trichroa — from lis'ing 
specimens. 
cyanovirens, screna, regia, forhesi, and tricolor— h'om 
skins. 
(To he co)ifiniu'd). 
♦ 
A Journey Across the Sierras, S. California. 
Bv Wm. Shork Baily. 
ConI i)mc(l from jmge 302. 
About a mile below tlie pass was a good sized ranch 
house, surrounded by a grove of large trees, including oaks 
and walnuts; a pleasing change after the cotton woods and 
willows, which are about the only trees natural to the valley. 
Under one of these trees we pitched our camp, and very glad 
we were to do so, as we had covered 45 miles of very un'- 
interesting and dusty country. After supper I took a stroll 
around. On a stale Alfalfa patch a pair of Kildcer Plovers 
(Acgialitis vocifera) were wheeling, but a diligent search 
failed to find their nest, although I met with a nest of the 
Yellow -breasted Lark. Probably the Plovers had young. Iiid- 
ing in one of the clumps of Alfalfa. Their actions were ex- 
actly similar to those of our Lapwings under similar circum- 
stances. On one side of the field a mountain stream rushed 
