A MPELID.E : CHA TTERERS. 



357 



in Lat. and English, Hesperus, the evening star, i. e., Lucifer or Venus, when setting in the 

 evening ; 'EfrnepiSfs, Hesperides, the nymphs who guarded the golden apples in the garden of 

 the same name, supposed to be 

 in Africa somewhere in the vi- 

 cinity of Mt. Atlas.) West- 

 ern Martin. Vesper Mar- 

 tin. Closely resembling the 

 last, the (J not satisfactorily 

 distinguishable. 9 differing in 

 having the belly, vent, and 

 crissum white, nearly or quite 

 immaculate ; flanks, breast, 

 throat, forehead, and nuchal 

 collar grayish-white ; feathers 

 of the back and rump with pale 

 edgings; bend of wing and 

 under wing-coverts spotted with 

 white. California and Arizona, 

 from lat. 40"^ S. to Nicaragua. 

 Brewster, Auk, Apr. 1889, 

 p. 92 ; CouES, Key, 4th ed., 

 1890, p. 899 ; A. 0. U. List, 

 2ded., 1895, p. 257, No. 61 1 a. 

 P. cryptoleii'ca. (Gr. KpvTrros, 

 krKjitos, hidden, concealed, oc- 

 cult, secret ; XevKos, leukos, 

 white.) Cuban Martin. In 

 general, resembling P. subis ; 

 smaller on an average, hardly 

 reaching 8.00 ; wing about 5.50 ; 

 tail about 3-00, with narrower 

 feathers and relatively deeper 

 forking than in P. suhis. 

 Adult $ : feathers of belly with concealed white spttts or bars. Adult 9 and young $ : 

 Belly and crissum quite white, in contrast with the grayish-brown of other under parts. Cuba, 

 Florida. Baird, Rev. Am. Birds, i, 1865, p. 277; not recognized in the Key, 1st, 2d, and 3d 

 eds., nor iu A. 0. U. List, 1st ed. ; P. stcbis cryptolenca, Key, 4th cd., 1890, p. 899; P. cryp- 

 toleuca, A. 0. U. List, 2d ed., 1895, p. 257, No. [611. 1]. 



Fig -213. —Purple Martiu. 



Family AMPELIDiE : Chatterers. 



This appears to be an arbitrary and unnatural association of a few genera tliat agree in 

 some particulars, but are widely different iu others. Tlie (•< imposition and position of tlie group 

 iliffer with almost every writer; someplace it in Clamatores, ne.xt to Tyrannidce. I think that 

 the family should be dismembered ; and doubtless the two subfamilies here presented may be 

 properly dissociated. They are discriminated, so for as our forms are concerned, by the char- 

 acters given under the heads of tlie only two genera with wliicii we have here to do. 



