BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 97 



RiDGWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 487.— Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d 



ed., 1884, 472.— RiDGWAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 272. 

 [Crotophaga] sulcirostris Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 107. — 



Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 175. 

 Crotophaga sulcirostra Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837, 115 (Guatemala). — 



SwAiNSON, Anim. inMenag., 1838, 322, fig. 65c. — Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 



Phila., iv, 1848, 91 (Puente Nacional, Mex.). 

 C[rotophaga] sulcirostra Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1847, 458. 

 [Crotophagal sulcirostra Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 210, no. 8913. 

 Crotophaga cassasii Lesson, Voy. 'Coquille,' i, 1830, 619 (Lima, Pern); Cent. 



Zool., 1830, pi. 11; Traits d'Orn., 1831, 130.— Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, Aves, 



1844-'46, 41, 256. 

 C[rotophaga] casasn Tschudi, Wiegmann's Archiv fiir Naturg., x, pt. i, 1844, 299 



(Peni). 

 Crotophaga casassi Lesson, Man. d'Om., ii, 1828, 134. 



Crotophaga semisulcata Swainson, Anim. in Menag., 1838, 346 ("South America"). 

 C[rotophaga] semisulcata Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1847, 458. — Bonaparte, Consp. 



Av.,i, 1850, 99. 

 (?) Crotophaga ? Baird, in Stanebury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 



333 (New Orleans). 



CROTOPHAGA ANI Linnaeus. 



ANI. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Maxilla smooth, or with a few irregular or 

 indistinct transverse wrinkles along sides of the knife-hke, proximally 

 arched, process of culmen; general color brownish black, faintly 

 glossed with violet (the violet gloss more distinct on secondaries) ; 

 feathers of head and neck broadly edged with dull brownish bronze, 

 the scapulars and interscapulars broadly submargined with more 

 greenish or oHvaceous bronze, the lesser and middle wing-coverts and 

 feathers of chest more narrowly margined with the same; under sur- 

 face of remiges and rectrices glossy blue-black or violaceous black; 

 bill and naked loral and orbital space dull black, the former becoming 

 paler or horn color on culminal ridge and tip of maxilla; iris brown; 

 legs and feet black. 



Young. — Uniform sooty black or very dark sooty brown, the 

 remiges and rectrices dull black slightly glossed with violet. 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 296-368 (360); wing, 142.5-161 

 (150.5); tail, 161-199 (186.1); cuhnen, 28-35 (31.2); tarsus, 34-40.5 

 (37.1); outer anterior toe, 25-30 (26.1).« 



o Thirty-four specimens. 

 1957°— Bull. 50, pt 7—16 7 



