lilRDM OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 123 



Clara Co., California, 1 spec, Nov., 1899; San Jose, San Jose Co., 1 spec, 

 Oct. 28, 1898).— Mailliard, Condor, iii, 1901, 125 (Paicines, San Benito Co., 

 California, winter res. j. — Brewster, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, 1902, 171 

 (San Jos^ del Rancho, La Paz, etc. Lower California, resident). — Bailey 

 (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 390, fig. 481. 



IPhainnpepla'] nitens Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1878, 18. 



Plha'hiopcpld] nitens Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 328. 



l\ham<>p('plu'] ii'itenti Rid(;way, INIan. X. Am. Birds, 1887, 465. 



PhxnopepJa u liens Coues, Ibis, April, 18(55, 163, in text (Arizona); Proc Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Philad., 1866, 71 (Fort Whipple, Arizona); 1868, 83 (Arizona); Check 

 List, 1873, no. 120; Birds N. W., 1874, 95 (song); Birds Col. Val., 1878, 

 475.— Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1866, 416 (Fort Crook, Fort Tejon, and 

 Colorado Desert, California, etc). — Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 

 1869, 548 (plateau dists. Vera Cruz, down to 7,000 ft.). — Cooper, Am. Nat., 

 viii, 1874, 17 (Cuyamaca Mts. California). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgwav, 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 405, 507, pi. 18, figs. 3, 4.— Yarrow and Hen- 

 SHAW, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv. for 1871 (1874), 34. — Hexshaw, Rep. 

 Orn. Spec. AVheeler's Surv. for 1873 (1874), 106 (Apache and Mount Turn- 

 bull, Arizona); Zool. Exped. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 229 (Nevada; Camps 

 Apache, Bowie, Lowell, and Blount Turnbull, Arizona). — (?) Ridgwav, Orn. 

 40th Parallel, 1877, 447 (Soda Lakes, Carson Desert, Nevada; 1 spec, June, 

 1868); Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 65 (Calaveras Co., California, May). 



\_Phsenopepla] nitens Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 116. 



Lepturus galeahis'LESsoN, Rev. Zool., 1849, 4. 



Myiadestes towusendi (error) Brewer, Proc Bost. Soc. N. H., .xvi, 1874, 109 (descr. 

 nest and eggs). 



Genus PHAINOPTILA Salvin. 



PhamopiUu^' HALViy;, Proc Zool. S(»c. Loud.. Apr. 17, 1877, .367. (Type, I'. 

 melanoxmitlia Salvin. ) 



Ptilog'onatidfv without crest, with tarsus lonj^er tliaii middle toe and 

 chiw, lH)ote(l ()!• \vv\ indistinctly scutellate/' niid with the tail much 

 shorter than winu'. 



Rill aV)out hall' as long as head, rather compressed, stronody carinate; 

 width at frontal antias decidedly less thandistance from nostril to tip 

 of maxilla, very little if at all «-reater than its depth at same point: 

 culnuMi stronoly ridged, straight basally, gradually decurx'ed termi- 

 nally, the tip of maxilla distinctly but not abruptly uncinate: niiixil- 

 lary tonnum nearly straight, distinctly notched suhtiM'minally : gonys 

 about e(|ual to unfeathered portion of mandit)ular rami, slightly l)ut 

 decidedly coincx. Nostril large, wholly exposed, hroadly o\"ate. nar- 

 I'owly margined abo\ e. nu)re t)roadly behind, by membrane, and with 

 a distinct exposed innei- tubende. Rictal bristles distinct. Ninth })ri- 

 niarv shorter than tirst. the sevinith, sixth, and tifth longest: three 

 out(>rm<)st j)rimaries normal in form. Tail decidedly shorter than wing 

 (about e(iual to distance from bend of wing to tip of longest seconda- 

 ries), slightly rounde<l. the rectrices rather broad, of normal form, 



« ^^ (paeivoi, splendens, et nriXoy, pluma." 

 ^ Except in young. 



