IGG 



SINGING BIUDS — OSCiNES. 



very stupid l)inl ; wlien pursuud, it thrusts its head into a tuft of grass, and, 

 iuianiuing itself concealed, can even lie taken with the hand. 



jMiddendorf describes a male bird as luudng a wash of rose-red over the 

 lower back and breast, and rose edges to feathers of hind head and cheeks. 

 (Baird.) 



Gexus CHRYSOMITRIS, Boie. 



Chri/somilrls, BoiE, Isis, 1828, 322. (Type, Fn'mjilla sjumis, Linn',eu.s.) 

 Astragalitms, Cabanis, Mus. Ilciu. 1851, 159. (Type, Fiiiii/ilJa Iristis, Linn.eus.) 



Gex. CllAB. Bill rathfi- acutely conic, the tip nut very sharp; the culmen slightly 

 convex at the tip ; the commissure gently curved. Nostrils couecaled. Obsolete ridges 

 ou the upper maudible. Tarsi shorter than the middle toe ; outer toe rather the longer, 



C. tristis. 



reaching to the base of the middle one. Claw of hind toe shorter than the digital jiortion. 

 Wings very long, reaching to the midtUe of the tail ; second (piill a little longer than first 

 and third. Tail deeply Ibrked. 



C. tristis. 



