BIRDS OF MIDDLE AND NORTH AMERICA. ()97 



54 (Thompson R., below Ashcroft, British CoUimbia). — Dawson, Auk, xiv, 

 1897, 179 (Okanogan Co, Washington).— Brooks, Auk, xvii, 1900, 107 

 (Sumas, British Columbia, May 26). — Bruner, Proc. Nebr. Orn. I^n., 2<1 ann. 

 meet., 1901, 57 (Sioux Co., n. w. Nebraska, breeding). 



I[cteria^ v[ii-ens'] loriglcanda Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, :5]2. 



/[c•^T/ffl] rirens longirnnda Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 527. 



[Jrtirin viridin.'] Subsp. a. Id rri a longicauda Sharpk, Cat. Birds Brit. INIus., x, 

 1885, 375, part only? (specimens from San Pedro, Honduras, and ( Juatenialan 

 localities very doubtfully referal^le to this form!). 



Icteria virens (not Turdus virens Linnaeus) Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 

 1872, 1.35 (Fort Hays, w. Kansas), 145 (Cheyenne, Wyoming), 166 (Ogden, 

 Utah), 175; Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1874, 52 (Mis.souri, Yellowstone, 

 and Musselshell rivers, etc., North Dakota and Montana). — Allen and 

 Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, 1883, 159 (Colorado Springs, Colorado, 

 after May 13). 



GeriLis GRANATELLUS Bonaparte. 



(Iravati'lhtx Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 312 (ex "Di'Brs, Esq. Orn., sub. 

 tab. 24"). (Type, (t. venustKs Bonaparte.) 



Medium-sizod or rather small stoiit-])illpd Miiiotiltida' with tho outer- 

 most (ninth) primary shorter than innermost (tirst); the tail nearly 

 equal to or longer than wing; hill much shorter than head, with cul- 

 men strongly curved c-ommissure distinctly arched, and mandible 

 deeper than maxilla; under parts partW red, upper parts graj'^ or bluish. 



Bill much shorter than head, slightly or moderately compressed, 

 with mandible deeper than maxilla; culmen strongly curved, gonys 

 slightl}" curved or nearl\' straight; maxillary tomium distinctly con- 

 cave, without subterminal notch; mandibular tomium distinctlj" convex, 

 except toward tip. Nostril small, circular, in anterior portion of nasal 

 fossa?, surrounded I)}" meml>rane, but this ver}' narrow anteriorly 

 (forming a slender marginal ring), that above the nostril scarcely 

 forming an ''operculum.'' Rictal bristles ol)vious but minute. Wing 

 moderate, excessively rounded (seventh to fifth primaries longest, 

 eighth shorter than fourth, and ninth shorter than tirst); wing-tip 

 not longer than exposed culmen. Tail slightl\' shorter than wing (in 

 (t mUw!) to imich longer {G. fmncei^cce)^ rounded, the rectrices broad 

 and rounded at tips. Tarsus very nearh" one-third as long as wing, 

 its scutella fairly distinct (sometimes obsolete or fused on outer side); 

 middle toe, with claw, decidedly shorter than tarsus; basal phalanx of 

 middle toe united for nearly if not (juite its entire length to outer toe, 

 for rather more than half its length to inner toe. 



Coloration. — Undcn* parts partly red; adult males ])luish gray fibove, 

 wnth tail and sides of pileum black; under parts white laterally, pink- 

 ish red medially; throat white or bluish gray; a broad supra-auricidar 

 stripe and, in some species, lateral rectrices parti}' white. 



Nidljication . — Unknown. 



