Field notes: Catalogue, journal, and species accounts, v507
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Barbs 1961 albino Calyptranna 3. Mar. 29 El Cerrito, Contra Costa Co., Calif. throat feathers buffy to light tan. One throat feather in pin-stage, a few others with remnants of sheaths at base. Lower throat buffy, darkening in band on upper breast. Breast pure white. Belly dark, rufous-buffy with dark green medial area and white base. Primaries nearly pure white, rich shaft, except for distal 1/3 of shaft, and outer. Well outer primary with dark- ening distally. Other primaries with small amount of dark at tip. Secondaries with dark shaft, very little dark on vanes; light- rufous spot at tip of inner row. Marginals of underwing pinkish, with dark [illegible] green center flochs. Underwing coverts with dark, green centers; Rufous (light) on axillars and some underwing coverts, extending a little to flank. Upper greater primary coverts white, green centers near tip. Marginals dark. A row of feather missing (lane skin shows) between marginals + lesser primary coverts, both ways, to wrist. Middle (?) primary coverts white edged, large dark spot centrally. The bird was a male, testes less than 1 mm. The shell was unsatisfied. Medium fat, on lack of throat. Sti 909, R.GS.