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NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



purpose of identification, should eitlier species present itself, we give 

 diagnoses iu the accompanying foot-uote.^ 



Genus CONURUS, Kuul. 



Conunis, Kfhl, Consp. Psittac. 4, 1830. — In. No%-a Acta K. L. C. Ai'ad. X, 1830. 



Gen. Char. Tail long, conical, and pointed ; bill stout ; cheeks feathered, but in some 

 species leaving a nakf d ring round the eye ; cere feathered to the base of the bill. 



The preceding diagnosis, though not very full, will serve to indicate the 

 essential characteristics of the genus among the JMiddle American forms 



Coniiriis carolitieiisis. 



with long pointed tails, the most prominent feature consisting in the densely 

 feathered, not naked, cheeks. But one species belongs to the United States, 



^ A. Tail longer than the wings ; lores and eheeks naked ; the latter with narrow lines 



of small feathers. 



S. militaris. Green ; forehead red ; posterior portion of haek, upper and under 

 tail-eoverts with quills and tip of tail, sky-blue ; under side of tail dirty orange- 

 yellow. Wing, 14.00 : middle tail-feathers, 15.00 ; tarsus, 1.08. ITab. North- 

 western Mexico to Bolivia. 



Sjnionyniy : Psitlacus militaris, Linn. S. N. 1767, 139. Sitlace militaris, 

 FiNscH, Die Papageien, I, 1867, 396. 



B. Tail about equal to the wings ; lores and eheeks feathered. 



S. pachyrhyncha. Green ; the forehead, edge of wings, and the tibis red ; 

 greater under wing-coverts yellow. Wing, 8.00 to 10.00 ; middle tail-feather, 6.50. 

 Hab. Southern Mexico (.lalapa and Angangueo), given probably erroneously from 

 the Rio Grande of Te.xa.s. Synonymy: McKroMrciis piichi/rln/ncluis, Sw. Syn. Birds 

 Mex. in Pbilos. Mag. T, 1827, 439, No. 79. Mhi/nchopsitla packijrhyncha, Bon. 

 Tableau des Perroquets, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, 149. SiUacc pachyrhyncha, 

 FiNSCll, Die Papageien, I, 1867, 428. J'siltacus pasclui, Waglek, Isis, 1831, 524. 

 Psittams strenmis, Licht. Preis-Verzeicluss, 1830. 



