Effect of Parentage on Egg Characteristics

The upper parts of the specimen are yellowish olive spotted with black throughout the upper back and on the top of the head. The underparts are yellowish orange from vent to bill with traces of black spotting on the throat. The primaries are brownish. The Logan specimen is the first specimen record of I. galbula galbula west of the Cascade Mountains. Kridler and Marshall (1962) reported an adult male singing in the Great Basin at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Harney County, Oregon on 1 June 1960. The bird, a male in second-year adult plumage collected at the refuge headquarters the same day (1960, Audubon Field Notes 14: 410), is in the National Museum of Natural History (No. 467080). The Malheur specimen is "pure" nominate galbula but the black at the base of the outer rectrices is somewhat reduced and is restricted to the outer webs compared to specimens of nominate galbula collected in the northeastern United States. The rectrices (longest rectrix