. Birds of the Colorado valley ... scientific and popular information concerning North American ornithology;. Birds. CHAEACTEES OF AMPELIS GAEEULUS 461 to Colorado; irregularly or casually to about 35° (Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, New Mexico, and Arizona). Only known to breed in America on the Yukon and Anderson Eivers; believed to do so In the Eooky Mountains at latitude 49° N. (Coites). Scarcely known on the Pacific coast of the United States except in Alaska. Ch. SP.â ^ 9 Crisso castaneo, abdomine griseoplumbeo, froute rubescente, alls albo vtflavo notatis. S 2 : Genera
. Birds of the Colorado valley ... scientific and popular information concerning North American ornithology;. Birds. CHAEACTEES OF AMPELIS GAEEULUS 461 to Colorado; irregularly or casually to about 35° (Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, New Mexico, and Arizona). Only known to breed in America on the Yukon and Anderson Eivers; believed to do so In the Eooky Mountains at latitude 49° N. (Coites). Scarcely known on the Pacific coast of the United States except in Alaska. Ch. SP.â ^ 9 Crisso castaneo, abdomine griseoplumbeo, froute rubescente, alls albo vtflavo notatis. S 2 : Generalcolorbrownish-ash, shading insensibly from the clear ash of the tail and its upper coverts and rump into a reddish-tinged ash anteriorly, this peculiar tint heightening on the head, especially on the forehead and sides of the â head,into orange-brown. A narrow frontal line, and broader bar through the eye, with the chin and throat, sooty-black, not or not sharply bordered with white. No yellowish on belly. Under tail-coverts orange-brown, or chestnut. Tail ash, deepening to blackish-ash toward the end, broadly tipped with rich yellow. Wings ashy-blackish; primaries tipped (chiefly on the outer webs) with sharp spaces of yellow, or white, or both; secondaries with white spaces at the ends of the outer webs, the shaits usually ending with enlarged, horny, red appendages. Primary coverts tipped with white. Bill blackish-plumbeous, often paler at base below; feet black. Length, 7 or 8 inches; wing, about 4^; tail, 2^. The sexes of this beautiful bird are alike, and the principal variations, aside from mere shade of the body-color, consist in the markings of the wings. In the finest specimens before me, the ends of tho primary q^uills are rich yellow, like the tips of Ihe tail-feathers, forming broad firm spaces, in a continuous line when the wing is closed, with narrower ofisets going around the ends of the quills. In less perfect speci- mens, these markings are simply white
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