304 U. S. P. R. R, EXP. AND SURVEYS ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex and 
Locality. 
When col- 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Ong. 
195 
204 
Collected by — 
of wings. 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
5658 
5661 
8823 
8207 
8229 
5660 
8264 
5927 
5928 
8S62 
8201 
1881 
5514 
8260 
8359 
3 
9 
9 
9 
3 
Black Hills, K. T 
Aug. 3,1855 
Aug. 4, 1856 
Sept. 13, 1857 
Aug. 24,1857 
Sept. 8,1857 
Sept. 17,1857 
Aug. 25.1856 
do 
Lieut. Warren 
Black Hills 
Dr. Hayden.... 
7.25 
7.00 
7.25 
7.75 
11.75 
11.00 
11.50 
11.50 
3.50 
3 50 
4.00 
3.50 
Fort Laramie, Neb 
do 
188 
211 
300 
[ris brown; bill black 
and yellow; feet bl'k. 
do do 
9 
Medicine Bow river.... 
Mimbres to Rio Grande. 
3 
3 
3 
3 
9 
3 
3 
o 
3 
May —,1855 
7.00 
11 25 
98 
Aug. —,1854 
May 13,1856 
Columbia river 
Petalunia, Cal 
S. P. Baird 
J.K.Townsend. 
Lieut. Williamson. 
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EUPHONIA, Desm. 
Euphonia, Desm. Hist. Nat. des Tangaras, 1805.— Sclater, Pr. Zoo\. Soc. 1856, 271. 
Ch. — Bill short, widened or depressed ; the culmen curved ; gonys ascending; commissure notched at tip, and somewhat 
serrate. Wings long ; tail short, quadrate. Colors black, blue, and yellowish. 
The bill of Euphonia is much shorter than the head, and very broad at the base. The two 
or three toothed lobes near the tip of cutting edge of the upper mandible are very distinct. The 
rictal bristles are very short. The tarsi are much shorter than the middle toe. The tail is very 
short, the feathers narrow. 
EUPHONIA ELEGANTISSIMA, Gray. 
Pipra elegantissima, Bonap. Pr. Zool. Soc. 1837, 112. 
Euphonia elegantissima, Gray, Genera, App. 17. — Bonap. Consp. 1850, 232. — Dubus, Esq. Orn. — Sclater, Cont. 
Orn. 1851, 83.— Ib Pr. Zool. Soc. 1856, 273. 
Euphonia coelestis, Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1839, 39. 
Pipra galericulata, Giraud, 16 Sp. Birds Texas, 1841. 
Sp. Ch. — Top of head and a half collar on the neck behind opaque blue. Sides of head and neck, chin, throat, and upper 
parts generally, steel bluish black. Beneath yellow brownish fulvous, tinged with dark brownish chestnut, especially on the 
forepart of the breast and towards the tail. Forehead dark chestnut, margined behind by black. Length, 4.70 ; wing, 2.75 ; 
tail, 1.80. 
j/ a 5. — Northern Mexico to Guatemala. California? 
This is one of the species (Pipra galericulata) described by Mr. Giraud in his " Sixteen New 
Species of Texas Birds," and the specimen 560 was obtained in the same locality with Mr. 
Giraud's. It is, however, very probable that the sixteen were actually collected some distance 
to the south of the Texas border, probably in the southern portion of the State of Tarnaulipas. 
I am informed by Dr. Cooper that the same bird has been captured near San Francisco, and 
that the specimen is now in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of that city. 
