AJIPELID^ — TIIK CHATTERERS — PHAINOPEPL A. I3I 



Genus PHAINOPEPLA, Sclater. 



P/iainopcpla (" Sclatek "), B.ukd, 1'. 11. Kcp. IX. 923, Oct. 1858. 



Gen. Char. Head with an occipital crest uf loiii;' narrow feathers. Bill weak, de- 

 pressed, decidedly narrower than the length of the cnhncu. Base of bill with short 

 bristles. Tarsi scutellate, bare above ; shortc^ than the middle toe ; outer lateral toe 



rather the longer ; equal to the hinder. Wings and tail rather long ; the foniier shortest ; 

 the first quill half the length of the second, and two fifths the fifth, or longest. Tail 

 feathers broad, widening to the rounded tip ; the tail moderately graduated ; the niitldle 

 ones longest. 



Phainopepla nitens, SwAiNso>f. 



THE BLACK FLYCATCHER. 



Ptilogomjs ;ii>-ns, Swainsox, Anim. in Meiing. 21 Cent. 1838, 285. — Boxaparte, Consp. 

 1850, .335. — Heeioiann, J. A. N. Sc. II. Jan. 1853,263. In. P. R. Rep. X. vi. .38. 

 — Cassim, Ilhist. I. 1854, 169 ; pi. xxix. — Clchlopsis miens, Baird, P. R. Rep. IX. 

 Birds, 320. — P/iui«o/;.7j/a «/«tHs ("Sclater, MSS."), Baikd, IX. 923. — Kenneklv, 

 X. iv. 22. 



Sr. Char. Head with an elongated occipital crest. Exposed portion of spurious ipiill 

 about half the length of the second, which equals the secondaries ; sixth ipuU bjiigest. 

 Tail graduated. Male throughout of a uniform lustrous black, glossed with green. Inner 

 webs of the primaries white, excejrt at the base, tips, and margins. Female, ash-color, 

 paler beneath ; the quills, wdng, and lower tail coverts and outer tail feathers edged with 

 whitish ; rest of tail feathers blackish. Length, 8.00 ; extent, 11.50 ; wing, 4.00 ; tail, 4.30. 

 Iris red ; bill and feet black. 



