PHiENOPEPLA. 



415 



The crest of this species appears longer than in cinereus ; the 

 tail is very differently shaped in the great prolongation and acute- 

 ness of the central feather (almost one-half longer than the lateral), 

 and the graduation of the rest, instead of being nearly even. These 

 feathers, too, ai*e narrower. The outer quills appear rather less 

 attenuated. The principal difference in color consists in the yellow- 

 ish-green of the head and neck all round, relieved only by the gray 

 of top of head ; the ring round eye yellow, not white ; the encroach- 

 ing on flanks and front of belly of the yellowish-green ; the lozenge- 

 shaped rather than rectangular patch of white on tail feathers, etc. 



Locality. 



When 

 Collected. 



Eeceived from 



Collected by 



San Jose, C. R. 



" [C. K. 

 Rancho Redondo, 



6, '64. 

 ir, '64. 



Dr. A. V. Frantzius. 

 J. Carmiol. 



PHAENOPEPLA, Sclater. 



If 

 Phainopepla, Sclatek, P. Z. S. 1858, 543. (Type Ptilogonys nitens, Sw.) 



Plumage rather compact : in tlie male glossy. Head with a narrow elongated 

 occipital crest. Wings pointed, reaching about to middle of tail. Spurious 

 primary large, broad; more 

 than half second, which is 

 about equal to seconda- 

 ries ; 6th quill longest ; 

 5th, 4th, and then 3d suc- 

 cessively shorter ; the lat- 

 ter rather shorter than 

 7th ; end of quills not 

 attenuated nor pointed. 

 Tail longer than wings; 

 somewhat fan - shaped ; 

 rounded at end ; not 

 emarginated ; the feathers 

 very broad, and widening 

 behind. 



Bill not very wide ; nos- 

 trils with overhanging 

 membrane ; frontal feath- 

 ers bristled, and reaching 

 to hinder edge of nostril ; rictal bristles extending to anterior edge ; both tips 

 of bill notched. Tarsi about equal to middle toe and claw, or a little longer ; 

 distinctly scutellate anteriorly ; one or two indistinct divisions on outer side 



8275' 



Phfienopepla nitens, Sct.ater. (Arizona.) 



