No ochraceous on outer webs of secondaries and primaries.
2. M. obscurus.[80] Back and wings rusty-olive. Head and beneath ashy, top of head deepest ash. Hab. Mountains of Mexico and Guatemala; Tres Marias Islands.
3. M. unicolor.[81] Entirely dark bluish slate-color, lighter beneath. Lores black. Hab. Central Mexico and Guatemala.
Myiadestes townsendi, Caban.
TOWNSEND’S SOLITAIRE.
Ptiliogonys townsendi, Aud. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 206, pl. ccccxix, fig. 2. (For other references see Birds N. Am. 321.)—Newberry, P. R. Rep. VI, Whipple’s Rep. Zoöl., 82. Culicivora towns. De Kay, N. Y. Zoöl. II, 1844, 110. Myiadestes towns. Cabanis, Wieg. Arch. 1847, I, 208.—Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, 5; 1858, 97.—Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 321; Rev. 429.—Cooper & Suckley, P. R. Rep. XII, II, 187.—Kennerly, P. R. Rep. X, Whipple’s Rep. 25.—Lord, Pr. R. Art. Inst. Woolwich, IV, 116 (Br. Col.).—Cooper, Orn. Cal. 1, 1870, 134.
Sp. Char. Tail rather deeply forked. Exposed portion of spurious quill less than one third that of the second; fourth quill longest; second a little longer than the sixth. Head not crested. General color bluish-ash, paler beneath; under wing-coverts white. Quills with a brownish-yellow bar at the base of both webs mostly concealed, but showing a little below the greater coverts and alulæ; this succeeded by a bar of dusky, and next to it another of brownish-yellow across the outer webs of the central quills only. Tertials tipped with white. Tail-feathers dark brown; the middle ones more like the back; the lateral with the outer web and tip, the second with the tip only, white. A white ring round the eye. Length, 8 inches; wing, 4.50; tail, 3.85. (8,234).
Hab. Mountainous regions of Middle and Western United States. (Not found at Cape St. Lucas nor in Mexico.)
Young birds have a large triangular pale-ochraceous light spot on the end of each feather (rather paler below), bounded externally by a narrow border of blackish; the quill and tail feathers as in the adult.
Habits. The first specimen of this somewhat remarkable bird was shot by Captain Brotchie, at Fort George, Astoria, and presented to Mr. Townsend, and by the latter given to Mr. Audubon. For some time this remained unique,