. Birds of the Colorado valley ... scientific and popular information concerning North American ornithology;. Birds. 356 CHARACTERS OF PYRANGA HEPATICA ? Oriseo olivacea, alls eauddque fusds, pileo, uropygio, margini- husque alarum et caudce flavicantibus ; infra flavicans, lateraliter obsmirior. S, adult: Upper parts brownish-asby, intimately mixed witb dull red; top of the bead, upper tail-coverts, and edgings of the wings and tail brighter brownish-red. Inner webs and ends of the wing-quills dusky; tail-feathers throughout decidedly tinged with red. Sides of the head like the back; edges of
. Birds of the Colorado valley ... scientific and popular information concerning North American ornithology;. Birds. 356 CHARACTERS OF PYRANGA HEPATICA ? Oriseo olivacea, alls eauddque fusds, pileo, uropygio, margini- husque alarum et caudce flavicantibus ; infra flavicans, lateraliter obsmirior. S, adult: Upper parts brownish-asby, intimately mixed witb dull red; top of the bead, upper tail-coverts, and edgings of the wings and tail brighter brownish-red. Inner webs and ends of the wing-quills dusky; tail-feathers throughout decidedly tinged with red. Sides of the head like the back; edges of eyelids ted. Below bright red, the sides and flanks shaded with the color of the back, many feathers often also with ashy Fig. Tanager, nat. size. gfeirting. Bill and feet blackish-plum- beous, the cutting edge of the upper mandible furnished with a tooth more prominent than in most species. Length about 8 inches ; wing, 4 ; tail, 3J; bill, f; tarsus, f. 9, adult: Bill and feet as in the g. Upper parts greenish-olive, with an ashy-gray tinge, the crown and rump clearer and more yellowish-olive. Sides of the head like the back. Beneath yellow, clear and nearly pure medially, shaded on the sides with the color of the back, sometimes brightening almost into orange on the throat. Qnills and tail fuscous, with olivaceous-yellow edgings, the former darker than the latter. Young g : Like the 5; in males changing, the characters of the two sexes are confused. Very young : There is an earlier streaky stage, before the assumption of a plumage like that of the female. The upper parts are grayish-brown with an olive tinge, the lower parts grayish-white with a yellowish shade, both everywhere streaked with dusky. Wings and tail like those of the adult $, but the former with oohraceous bands across the ends of the greater and middle coverts. DURING Capt. L. Sitgreaves's expedition down the Zuni and Colorado Eivers—an excursion well known to ornitholo- gists through the importa
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