SYNONYMY AND CHARACTERS OF P. NITENS 475 



€re!!ited Shiuing-black White-winged 

 Flysnapper 



Pheenopepla nitens 



FtilOgonys nitens, Sw. " Anim. in Menag. in Lardner'a Cab. Cyclop. Birds, pt. iii. 1838, 

 285 " (orig. deser. ; some say 1837).— 5^;. CA. L 1850, 335 (synon. and diagn.). —i/eerm. 

 Jonrn. Pbila. Acad. ii. 1853, 202 (California ; note of habits).— Cass. Ill ust. 1854, 169, 

 pi. 29 (general history).— ITcwr!/, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1855, 308 (New Mexico).— JTc^rwi. 

 PRRR. X. 1859, 38 (California). 



Cicblopsis nitens, Bd. BNA. 1858,320 (synonymy and description). 



Pliainopepla nitens, Sd. PZS. 18.58, 543 (typeof genus).- Ud. BNA. 1858, 923 (description).— 

 Bd. U. S. Mex. B. Surv. ii. pt. ii. 1859, Birds, 11 (Arizona, etc.).— Kenn. PKEE. x. 1859, 

 25 (New Mexico or Arizona).— Ud. Pr. Phila. Acad. 1859, 303 (Cape St. Lucas).- 

 Xanl. Pr. Phila. Acad. 1859, 191 (California).— fl^enn/, Pr. Phila. Acad. IS.'jg, 106 (New 

 Mexico).— iJd. Ives's Rop. Colo. R. 1861, pt. v. 5.—Scl. Cat. AB. 1862, 47 (synonymy).— 

 Scl. PZS. 1864, 173 (City of Mexico).— X)ress. Ibis, 1865, 480 (Eagle Pass, Texas).— 

 Ooop. Am. Nat. iii. 1869,34, 185 (Cajon Pass, Cal).— Coop. B. Cal. i. 1870, 131 (general 

 account). — Tarrow, Rep. Orn. Specs. 1874, 34 (Nevada, Bischoff). 



Plisenopepla nitens, Coues, Ibis, 1865, 163 (Arizona).— Cowes, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1866, 71 

 (Arizona).— Co?t€s, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1868, 83 (Arizona).- Sd. Rev. AB. 1806, 416, fig. 

 (critical).— Cowes, Key, 1872, 116 (description).— Cowes, BNW. 1874, 95 (note on the 

 song).— Cowes, Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 542 (correction of Brewer's error— see infra).— 

 Coop. Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 17 (Cuyamaca Mountains).— .B. .B. c6 iJ. NAB. i. 1874, 405, 

 figs. pi. 18, f. 3, 4 (general history) ; iii. 1874, 507 (nest and e>ggs). —Rensh. Rep. Orn. 

 Specs. 1874, 106 (Arizona) —Hensh. List B. Ariz. 1875, 157 (s&ma) .—Rensh. Zool. E.xpL 

 W. 100 Merid. 1875, 229 (habits).— i?idgw. Rep. Surv. 40th Par. 1877, 447 (Nevada; 

 habits). 



Hypotbymis nitens, ''Lafr." 



Lepturus galeatus, Less. "Compl. Bufi"on, 1838, — ; Rev. Zool. 1849, 4". 



"Myiadestes townsendi ", Brew. Pr. Best. Soe. xvi. 1873 (pub. 1874), 109 (error; nest and 

 eggs oi Phcenopepla nitens described as those oi M. townsendi). 



Black Ply-catc!ier, Blacl£ Ptllogonys, Shining-crested Flycatcher, Shining Ptilogonys, 

 Aliq. locis passim supr^ citatis. 



Hab.— Mexico ; Lower California ; southern portions of the Middle and 

 Western Provinces of the United States (Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, 

 Southern California, Southern Nevada, and probably portions of Utah and 

 Colorado). 



Ch. sp. — Crisfata. $ Chalyheo-atra, remigibus spatio magno 

 albo. 9 griseofusca, infra dilutior speculo alari obsoleto, alis 

 cauddque nigricantibus, albido limbatis. 



$ , adult: Entirely rich lustrous black, with steel-blue or greenish reiiec- 

 tions. Primaries with a large white space on the inner webs. Bill and feet 

 black. Length about 7^ inches; "extent, Hi"; wiug, 3^3f; tail, 3^4^ ; 

 bill, f-4 ; tarsus, f-^ ; middle toe and claw, j— |. 



9 , adult : Created, like the male. Entirely brownish-gray, paler beneath, 

 the wiugs and tail blackish, the white on the inner webs of the primaries 

 much reduced or extinguished, and in its stead much whitish edging of the 

 quills and coverts, tail-ftathers, and crissum. 



Young, $ : Like the $ ; and during the progress to maturity every grada- 

 tion between the characters of the two sexes is observed. Sometimes nearly 

 all the feathers are skirted with white. 



