Length (of skin) about 5 inches. Anterior feathers of crest, cinereous,
succeeding and most elongated, black, others margined with white, short
occipital feathers black. Throat black, line commencing behind the eye,
thence curving and uniting with the space of the same color on the
throat, black. Line above the eye running into the crest and around on
the neck, white. Entire plumage above cinereous, tinged with olive,
below ashy white, bill and feet dark.
Hab. Texas. Spec. in Mus. Acad. Philada.
Obs. This species considerably resembles _Lophophanes cristatus_,
(Linn.) a common European bird. I have no doubt that the names given
above are synonymous; that applied by us being about one month later
than the publication of the description by Bonaparte as cited.