33. rsiLORHixus. 139 



edged ; bill and legs black. Total length 10-3 inches, culmen 1-4, 

 wing .5" 75, tail o-Q, tarsus l"o. 



Hab. The same as that of the genus. 



n. 2 ad. sk. TieiTa Amarella, New Mexico, Smithsonian Institu- 



Sept. ] 5, 1874 ( C. E. Aiken). tion [P.]. 



b. 5 ad. sk. Colorado, March 31, 187-5. Purchased. 



c. (S ad. sk. Fort Garland, July 1 6, 1875. Purchased. 



33. PSILORHINUS. „ 



Type. 



Psilorhinus, liiippeU, Mus. Seiickenb. 1837, p. 188 P. mexicanus. 



Range. Central America, I'anging into the extreme south of North 

 America. 



Key to the Sp.ries. 



a. Cheeks brown. 



a'. Tail brown, not white-tipped ; abdomen brown- 

 ish morio, p. 139. 



b'. Tail brown, broadly tipped with white ; abdomen 



creamy white ..." me.vicanus, p. 140. 



b. Cheeks bluish, as also a spot above and below the 



hinder pai-t of the eye cyanogenys, p. 140. 



1. Psilorhinus morio. 



Pica morio, Wayler, Isis, 1829, p. 7.51. 



Cor\ais morio, IJycl. ^- Gen. Toy. Favorite, Zool. p. 54. 



Pica fuliginosa. Less. Traite, p. 333. 



Psilorhinus morio, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 308 ; Bp. Cousp. i. p. .381 ; 



Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 226 ; Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 592, pi. Ixviii. 



figs. 1, 2 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, pp. 57, 365; Scl. ^ Salv. Ibis, 1859, 



p. 22 ; Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 146; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 6 ; Scl. 



^- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotf. p. 40 ; Baird, Brewer, Sc Eidgw. N.- 



Amer. B. ii. p. 304. 



Adult. General colour brown, blacker on the head, neck, and 

 mantle ; the frontal plumes stiif, erect, the front ones directed for- 

 wards, so as to partially hide the nostrils ; sides of face, throat, and 

 chest blackish brown, shading off into paler brown on the breast, 

 the rest of the under surface pale ashy on the abdomen ; thighs and 

 under wing- and tail-coverts darker brown ; wings and tail above 

 brown like the back, all the feathers distinctly shaded with ashy- 

 grey on the outer webs; bill blackish. Total length 17'0 inches, 

 culmen 1'75, wing 8-75, tail 9, tarsus 2'05. 



Some specimens, probably females, are smaller, the abdomen paler 

 ashy, and the bill yellow instead of black. Total length 14-5 inches, 

 culmen 1-G, wing 8*1, tail 7*8, tarsus 1"85. 



Hab. Mexico. 



fl) 6- [ c? 2 ] ad. sk. Mexico. Purchased. 



c. Ad. sk. Orizaba, Mexico. A. Boucard, Esq. [C.l. 



d. Juv. sk. Orizaba, Mexico. A. Boucard, Esq. [C.J. 



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