350 U. S. P. R. E. ESP. AND SURVEYS ZOOLOGY— GENERAL REPORT. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Age. 
Locality. 
When collected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by — 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Wing. 
4217 
4218. 
8142 
3932 
6966 
447S 
45G2 
4948 
8141 
10191 
4902 
.... 
San Francisco, Cal 
do 
Winter 1853-"4 
K. D. Cutts..... 
Santa Clara, Cal 
Oot. 29, 1855 
13 
13 
do 
A. J. Grayson 
do 
o 
Sacramento valley. 
Lt. Williamson 
52 
Dr. J. F. Hammond 
12. 25 
12.62 
HARPORHYNCHUS LECONTII, B o n a p . 
Toxostoma leeontii, Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Lyc. V, Sept. 1851, 109. (Fort Yuma.) 
Harporhynchus leeontii, Bonap. Comptes Rendus, XXVIII, 1854, 57 -, Notes Orn. Delattre, 39. 
Sp. Ch. — Bill much curved. Second quill about equal to the tenth ; exposed portion of the first more than half the longest ; 
outer tail feather an inch shortest. General color above light grayish ash, beneath much paler; the chin and throat above 
almost white ; the sides behind brownish yellow or pale rusty yellow ash, of which color is the crissum and anal region. Tail 
feathers rather dark brown on the under surface, lighter above ; the outer edges and tips of exterior ones obscurely paler. 
Quills nearly like the back. 
Hub.— Frot Yuma, California. 
This species in form, shape, and curvature of hill and general appearance, is so much like 
the H. reclivivus as to render it extremely likely that it will prove only one of those light 
races or varieties so often met with in hirds of the lower Gila river. The size is smaller, but this 
might he merely the result of its more southern habitat. The colors above are much lighter than 
in H. reclivivus. The contrast between the body of the tail feathers and their obsoletely lighter 
edges is rather more decided than in the other species. The second quill is longer, and the first 
is fully half the longest instead of less than half. The bill in curvature and general shape is 
exactly like that of H. reclivivus. 
List of specimens. 
Local ity . 
Whence obtained . 
Fort Yuma, Gila rive 
