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U. S P. E. R, EXP. AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT 
CHARACTERS OF SPECIES. 
a. Cheek patches 
6. Shafts 
c. Throat and beneath eye 
d. Nape 
e. Color of back, with shade of 
Black 
Gamboge yellow.., 
I Pale lilac brown.. 
With red crescent 
I Olivaceous green . 
C. mexicanus. 
Red 
Orange red 
Bluish ash 
Without crescent 
Purplish brown 
NUMBER AND LOCALITY OF SPECIMENS. 
5225. Fort Pierre. 88G3. Loup fork 
5224. White Earth river, Nebrask 
5603. Little Blue river, Nebraska. 
5214. Near Fort Pierre | b 
6158. Milk river, Nebraska .. 
4638. Fort Pierre, female, ashy throat j a 
5212. Yellowstone ..! a 
5213. Yellowstone d. 
5211. Fort Union a. d. 
8258. Fort Laramie c. d. 
5601. Fort Laramie | c 
* The sligkest possible trace of black on the cheeks. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex ami 
age. 
Locality. 
When col- 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by — 
Length. 
Stretch 
>f wings. 
Wing. 
4638 
4639 
404 1 
5214 
5225 
5222 
5223 
5220 
5215 
5216 
5217 
5218 
5219 
5217 
5224 
6158 
5603 
8863 
88R9 
8258 
5601 
4640 
5211 
5212 
5213 
9 
3 
9 
3 
3 
o 3 
o 3 
o 
o 
o 3 
9 
3 
9 
9 
3 
3 
3 
9 
o 
Yellow predominating on shafts. 
Fifty miles west of Fort Pierre, Nebraska. 
April 10, 1855 
April 18, 1855 
May 30, 1856 
13.12 
12.50 
19.50 
19.50 
6.50 
6.25 
July 4, 1856 
Aug. 1,1856 
July 23, 1856 
Aug. 19, 1856 
Aug. 22, 1856 
Aug. 23, 1856 
Aug. 19, 1856 
Sept. 6, 1856 
Aug. 31, 1853 
July 7, 1856 
July 27, 1857 
July 2, 1857 
Sept. 1,1857 
13.00 
20.50 
6.00 
* 
12.25 
12.00 
20.12 
20.50 
6.25 
7.00 
73 
12.00 
11.10 
20.50 
17.75 
6.50 
5.50 
Orange predominating on shafts. 
W. M. Magraw 
Lieut. Bryan 
3 
Oct. 1, 1856 
April 10, 1855 
J ly 19, 1856 
July 28, 1856 
July 25, 1856 
Col. A. Vaughan 
3 
9 
3 
12.50 
12.37 
1J.00 
20.00 
20.12 
2.08 
6.37 
6.37 
6.37 
do 
