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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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Wings rounded ; the inner secondary quills apparently uncommonly long ; 

 4th quill longest, next 3d and 5th ; 2d between the 6th and 7th ; 1st quill 

 more than half the 2d, broad and rather falcate ; 2d quill .70 shorter than 4th. 



Tail rather shorter than wings, rounded ; the lateral feathers half an inch 

 shorter than the central ones. 



Legs short and stout ; tarsus barely longer than middle toe and claw ; dis- 

 tinctly scutellate over anterior half of circumference, the plates well defined, 

 and six or seven in number ; claws all very stout and much curved, almost 

 like those of a Woodpecker ; hind toe and claw decidedly longer than the 

 lateral. 



Margarops fuscatus. 



Tardus fuscatus, Vieillot, Ois Am. Sept. II, 1806, 1, pi. Ivii, his. — Ib. 



Encyclop. Meth. 11,1823,639. — Cichlerminiafuscata, Newtox, Ibis, 



1S59, 141, eggs, pi. xii, fig. 8 (Sta Cruz).— Cassix, Pr.- A. N. S. 



1860, 376 (St. Thomas). — Margarops fuscatus, Sclatee, Pr. Z. S. 



1859, 335.— Ib. Catal. 1861, 6, no. 38. 



Colluricinclafusca, Gould, P. Z. S. 1836, 6 (see Newton, Ibis, 1859, 142). 



Eah. St. Domingo and Porto Rico (Vieill.) ; St. Thomas; Santa Cruz 



(Newton). 



Length (of 30,405), 11.40; wing, 5.20; bill from Lead, 1.30; nostril, .78; 

 gape, 1.50 ; tarsus, 1.41 ; middle toe and claw, 1.30 ; claw alone (chord), .35 ; 

 hind toe and claw, .95. 



Iris pearly white ; bills varying much in size ; eggs blue (Newton). 



OREOSCOPTES, Baikd. 



Oreoscoptes, Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 346. (Type Orpheus montanus, Towxs.) 



Bill shorter than the head, without distinct notch. Bristles prominent, 

 their tips reaching beyond the nostrils. Wings pointed, equal to, or a little 

 longer than the tail. First quill not half the second, about two-fifths the 

 longest ; 3d, 4th, and 5th quills equal and longest ; 2d between 6th and 7th. 

 Tail but slightly graduated ; the feathers narrow. Tarsus longer than middle 

 toe and claw by an additional claw ; scutellse distinct anteriorly. 



Only one species is at present known of this genus. 



Oreoscoptes montanus. 



Orpheus montanus, Townsend, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. VII, ii, 1837, 

 192.— Add. Birds Amer. II, 1841, 194, pi. IZ^.— Turdus montanus, 

 AuD. Orn. Biog. IV, 1S38, 437, pi. 369, fig. l.—^J!mus vwntanus, 



