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SINGING BIRDS — OSCINES. 



S. /errttgineus. 



Scolecophagus cyanocephalus, Wacler. 



BKEWEK'S BLACKBIRD. 



Psarocolitis r/yonocqj/ia/iis, Wagler, Isis, 1829, 753. — Scolecoiihapus cyanocephalus, Cabanis, 

 Mus. Hein. 18.51, 193. — Baikd, P. K. Rep. IX. Birds, 552. — IIeekmann, X. vi. 53. 

 Cooper and Suckley, XII. iii. Zool. of W. T. 209. 



Scoleco[)ha<jus Mexicanus, Swainson, Anim. in Men. 2| cent. 1838, 302. — Newberky, Zool. 

 Cal. and Or. Route ; Rep. P. R. R. Surv. VI. iv. 1857, 86. 



Quiscaliis Brewer!, Audubon, Birds Amer. VII. 1843, 345 ; pi. 492. 



Sp. Char. Bill stout, quiscaline, the commissure scarcely sinuatcd, shorter than the 

 head and the hind toe ; the height nearly half the len;;th aljuve. AN'ing nearly an inch 

 longer than the tail ; the second quill longest ; the first ahout equal to the third. Tail 



rounded and moderately graduated ; the lateral feathers aliout 0.35 of an inch shorter. 

 General color of male black, with lustrous green reflections everywhere, except on the 

 head and neck, which arc glossed with purplish-violet. 



Female, much duller, of a light brownish anteriorl\- ; a very faint superciliary stripe. 



