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Well known as a bird of Chili and other countries of Western South America. 

 In this species the under wing coverts are white, and the fine scarlet of the 

 throat and breast extends over the abdomen. 



Numerous specimens in the Academy Museum, and in Museum Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



7. Sturnella loyca, (Molina.) 



Sturnus loyca, Mol., Dizz. Stor. Nat. Chili, (1782,) 2d ed. p. 212, (1810.) 



Sturnella bellicosa, De Filippi. 



Pezites brevirostris, Cab., Mus. Hein., p. 191, (1850.) 



Leistes albipes, Philip, et Landb. Trosch. Archiv., 1863, p. 128? 

 This is apparently a smaller bird than the preceding, with a shorter and 

 thicker bill, and the scarlet of the under parts is restricted to the throat, neck 

 and breast, not extending on the abdomen as in the preceding. One fine ap- 

 parently adult specimen now before me has the tibise clear white on their inner 

 surfaces, mottled with black on their outer, in which plumage it seems to be 

 Leistes albipes, Philip, et Landb., as above cited. The under wing coverts are 

 white, as in the preceding. 



The synonymy of this species I find to be difficult, but it is not improbable 

 that it was first described by Dr. Cabanis as above cited, authors to the con- 

 trary notwithstanding. Specimens in Mus. Acad. 



8. Sturnella De Filippii, (Bonaparte.) 



Trupialis defllippii, Bonap. Consp. Av. i. p. 429 (1850.) 

 Easily distinguished from either of the two preceding by its black under wing 

 coverts. Specimens from Brazil in Museum Academy. 



3. Amblyramphus. 

 (Genus Amblyramphus, Leach, Zool. Misc. p. 81, 1815.) 



9. Sturnella holosericea, (Scopoli.) 



Xanthornus holosericeus, Scop. Flor. et Faun. Insub. p. 88, (1786.) 

 Oriolus ruber, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 388, (1788.) 

 Amblyramphus bicolor, Leach, Zool. Misc. i. p. 82, (1815.) 

 Sturnus pyrrhocephalus, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 18, (1823.) 

 Sturnella rubra, Vieill. Ency. Meth. ii. p. 635, (1823.) 

 Leistes erythrocephalus, Swains. Cab. Cy. Birds, ii. p. 275, (1837.) 

 Leach. Zool. Misc., i. pi. 36. 



Numerous specimens of this apparently common species are in the Academy 

 Museum from Brazil. Easily recognized when adult, by its brilliant scarlet 

 head, and tibiae and black body. The young is nearly uniform dull black, the 

 scarlet generally first appearing on the throat and forehead. 



This species ends the subfamily Agelaiinae, but I am not quite confident 

 that the genera or subgenera Creadion, Vieillot, and Amblycercus, Cabanis, do 

 not belong here. Such may be the case also with Hypopyrrhus, Bonaparte. 

 At present, however, my impression is, that all of these have greater affinities 

 in other groups of the family Icteridce. 



A Critical Review of the Family PROCELLARIID.E : Part III ; embracing 



the FULMARE.E. 



BY ELLIOTT COUES, A. M., M. D. 



[Continued directly from page 144 of these Proceedings for 1864.*] 



The Fulmarece, as I would define them, form a group of the Procellarina 

 represented as far as is now known by only three genera. These are Fulma- 

 rus, Thalassoica and Ossifraga ; all closely allied in general form and propor- 



* The writer's protracted residence in Arizona, where books and specimens were alike unat- 

 tainable, has unavoidably delayed until now the continuation of the series of papers begun in 

 1864. Efforts will now be made to finish the subject. 



1866.] 



