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Mojave). — Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvi, 1873, 108 (descr. eggs). — 

 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 47, pi. 4, fig. 1; iii, 

 1 874 , 500 (Tucson , Arizona ; descr. eggs) . — Henshaw , Rep. Orn . Spec . Wheeler's 

 Surv., 1874, 40 (St. George, s. Utah, breeding), 97 (Mount Turnbull, Arizona), 

 154 (Arizona); Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid.. 1875, 158 (Mount Turnbull, Camp 

 Lowell, and Camp Bowie, Arizona). — Stephens, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 

 1878, 93 (Gila R., New Mexico; Arizona). — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 

 1881, no. 17.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 72 (Tucson, Ari- 

 zona); vii, 1882, 74 (Tombstone, Tucson, and Camp Lowell, Arizona; hab- 

 its, descr. nest and eggs, crit., etc.). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 

 361. — Mearns, Auk, iii, 1886, 292-299 (full synonymy, historical, biography, 

 etc.). — American Ornithologists' LTnion, Check List, 1886, no. 712. — MoR- 

 coM, Bull. Ridgway Orn. Club, no. 2, 1887, 54 (Yuma, Arizona, breeding). — 

 Scott, Auk, v, 1888, 161 (s. Arizona, resident; habits). — Anthony, Auk, ix, 

 1892, 368 (Deming and Apache, s. w. New Mexico, breeding). — Nehrling, 

 Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 68, pi. 4, fig. 4.^Fisher (A. K.), North Am. 

 Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 130 (localities in Nevada, Utah, etc.; descr. nest).^ — Lantz, 

 Trans. Kans. Ac. Sci. for 189()-97 (1899), 223 (Florido, Sonora) .— Wilson 

 (S. S.), Auk, xvi, 1899. 189 (San Miguel Co., New Mexico). —Oilman, Condor, 

 iv, 1902, 15 (Conchilla Valley, etc., Colorado Desert; habits). 



[Harporhynchus] crissalis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 75. 



H[arporhynchus] crissalis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 254; 5th ed., i, 

 1903, 289.— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 546. 



Harporrhynchus a-issales [typographical error] Baird, Ives' Rep. Expl. Col. R,, 

 pt. V, 1861, 6. 



[Mivius] crissalis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 2()3, no. 3847. 



Genus MELANOTIS Bonaparte. 



Melanotis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 276. (Type, Tardus melanotis Tem- 

 minck, = Orpheus cserulescens Swainson). — Baird, Review Am. Birds. 1864, 

 56 (genus first characterized!). 



Rather large jMimidse (length about 225-275 mm.) with upper 

 parts plain gra^dsh blue or bluish gray, longest primaries exceeding 

 longest secondaries by about half the length of middle toe (wittiout 

 claw), and with seventh, sixth, and fifth primaries longest. 



Bill about as long as head (exposed culmen equal to or slightly 

 longer than middle toe without claw, sometimies longer than middle 

 toe with claw), rather stout, about as broad as high at base; culmen 

 distinctly ridged, straight basally, slightly and gradually curved toward 

 tip, where strongly decurved; gonys much shorter than distance 

 from nostril to tip of maxilla, nearly straight (sometimes faintly con- 

 cave subterminally), its base forming a faintly but decidedly promi- 

 nent angle; commissure nearly straight. Nostril broadly oval, occu- 

 pying greater part of the rather small nasal fossa, posteriorly in con- 

 tact with frontal antise, overhung by membrane. Rictal bristles well 

 developed. Wing rather short and rounded (longest primaries exceed- 

 ing secondaries by about half the length of middle toe without claw) ; 

 seventh, sixth, and fifth primaries longest, the tenth (outermost) more 

 than half as long as ninth, the latter shorter than secondaries. Tail 



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