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There are two genera of this section liavinL; in brief the followuig char- 

 acters : — 



Crest narrow, pointed, its foatliers stiff, tlu'ir welis compact ; outer primaries 

 broad. Tail rounded Phamopepla. 



Ci'est broad, decumbent, soft, the feathers loose ; outer primaries attenuated. 

 Tail even or euneate .......... Ptihtrjimya. 



The genus PtHogoiijis has two species, one Mexican, the other Costa- 

 Itican, neitlier coming witliin the limits of the United States. The type is 

 P. cinercus, SwAiXSOX (Baiud, Rev. Am. Birds, 412), a species of the table- 

 lands of Mexico, which may yet be found within the southern borders of the 

 United States in New Mexico or Arizona. 



Genus PH^NOPEPLA, Sclater. 



Phccnopcpla, Sclatek, P. Z. S. 1858, 543. (Type, Pliliogmiys nitcns, SwAlxs.) 



Gen. Char. Crest narrow, pointed behind. Outer primaries broad, not attenuated nor 

 pointed at end ; the first half the second. Tail rounded, fan-shaped ; feathers very broad, 

 wider towards end. Bill feeble, rather narrow, well bristled ; nostrils somewhat overhung 

 by frontal feathers. Sexes dissimilar ; male black ; quills with median white patch on 

 inner webs ; tail not varied. 



The single kuowu species is glossy black in the male ; the female brown- 

 isli-ash. 



Phsenopepla nitens, Sclater. 



SHINING-CRESTED FLYCATCHEK. 



Piiliogonys nitcns, Sw. An. iu Jlenag. 1838, 285. — Box. Cousp. 1850, 335. — Heermann, / 

 Jour. A. N. Sc. Phila. II, 1853, 263. — Casstx, 111. Birds Texas, etc. 1854, 169, pi. 

 x.\ix. Cichlopsis nitens, Bairp, Birds N. Am. 1858, 320, 923. Pluawpepla nitcns, 

 Sclatek, P. Z. S. 1858. 543 ; 1864, 173 (City of Mexico). — Baird, Rpv. Am. B. 1864, 

 416. — Cooper, Oru. Cal. I, 1870, 131. " Lepturus (/alcatus, Less." 



Sp. Char. (No. 8.27.5 ^.) Tail broad, almost fan-.'ihaped ; graduated slightly; not at 

 all emarginate, and longer than wing. First quill broad, slightly falcate, scarcely attenu- 

 ated; more than half the second, which about equals the tenth; sixth longest; third 

 equal to seventh. Feathers on nape rather full, with a lengthened, pointed, narrow, 

 occipital crest. 



Male. (Xo. 8,27.")) entirely glossy greenish-lilack ; the inner webs of all the primary quills 

 with a large, lengthened patch of white, which does not reach the inner margin ; their outer 

 webs very narrowly edged with ashy, as are also lateral tail-feathers externally. 



Female (No. 8,274) brownish-ash, paler below; the white of inner webs of quills 

 obsolete ; the greater coverts and quills edged externally with whitish, the anal and crissal 

 feathers edged and tipped with the same ; the outer tail-featlier with narrow edge of white 

 externally towards end. 



Immature birds show every gradation of color between the two extremes described 

 above. 



