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J2GIOTHUS EXILIPES. Coues. Proc. Phil. Acad. (1861), p. 385.
Tins Linnet, so closely allied to the A. Unarms, is a native of Northern America, and has never to my knowledge been observed
within the limits of the United States. It was elevated to a specific rank by Coues in his able Monograph of this family, published
in the Proceedings, as above quoted, and differs from ^ r e la tiv e & the shape of its biU, white rump, and particularly small, weak
feet, from which latter circumstance it derives its scientific name.
The type specimen, an adult male, was obtained at Port Simpson, on the 30th of April, 1860, but no record of its habits or
economy has been given by its discoverers.
It may be described as follows:
A patch on fore-part of head, crimson. Occiput, and upper parts, yellowish, streaked with dusky. Rump, white. Primaries and
secondaries dark brown: tiro »int. narrowly; the letter, broadly tipped with white. The greater covert. »1» tipped with the
forming trLverse I» » Upper-tail. coverts, dmlrv in their centre.; «nder-t.il coverts, white, Di.der parte, white; the throat and
npper "part of breast, in some specimens, tinged with rose. Planks, streaked with dinky. BiU, horn-color at the base, blackish at the
tip. Feet, black.
The figures are life-size.