438 APPENDIX. 



Bill large, compressed from the base, entire, the edges angular, 

 hardlv bent in; upper mandible curved from the middle, longer than 

 the lower, v/ith an osseous prominence in the middle; tongue bifid 

 at tip; nostrils half closed by a membrane. 



Q. major, Bonap. I, p. iv, f. l and 2 (Gracula harrita of authors. 

 Jackdaw of the south). Black, with a blue gloss mixed with purple; 

 head and neck purple; iris yellow. Female dusky; back, wings 

 and tail with a slight bluish gloss; head and neck dark brown; throat, 

 breast and belly, brown. 



Q. versicolor, Vieill. Wils. Ill, p. xxi, f. iv (^Grac. quiscida of au- 

 thors). Black, with a bluish gloss, mixed with purple; head and 

 neck with a purple gloss; iris yellow. Female more dusky. Both 

 these species are similar in their manners, are gregarious, and com-' 

 mit great devastation in fields of grain. 



Q. ferrugifieus, Bonap. Wils. Ill, p. xxi, f. 3 (Grac. ferruginea of 

 authors). Black, with feathers more or less tipped with ferruginous. 



N.B. Previous to the labours of M. C. Bonaparte, these three 

 birds were not understood. It is needless to occupy any space in 

 commenting on the errors that have hitherto existed respecting 

 them. 



XXIV. 



Add, Tot. macularius, Temm. Wils. VIII, p. lix, f. 1. The Pha- 

 laropus frenatus alluded to by our author in note (3) isnot figured in, 

 Wilson, IX, p. Ixiii, f. 3. The bird there represented is the Lobipes 

 Wilsonii of Sabine. 



XXV. 



Here should come the genus Aramus, Vieill. characterized as 

 follows. Bill much longer than the head, cleft beneath the eyes, 

 compressed, straight, curved, and somewhat turgid at tip; upper 

 mandible slightly furrowed, the lower turgid towards the middle, 

 angular beneath, acute; nostrils in wide orifices, linear, pervious; 

 lores naked; feet long; toes divided to their base, hind toe long. 



Ar. scolopaceus, Vieill. Brown glossed with green; feathers longi- 

 tudinally white in the middle; rump, quill, and tail feathers imma- 

 culate. Inhabits Georgia and Florida, Bonap. Syn. p. 308. 



