4. PHAINOPEPLA. 221 



Ptilogonys aterrima, Licht. Mus. Berol. 



Cichlopsis nitens, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 320 (1858). 



Phainopepla nitens, <SW. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 513 ; Baird, B. N. Amer. 

 p. 9i>.3 (1858) ; Kenn. Pacific Railroad Rep. x. p. 25 (1859) ; Scl. 

 Cat. Amer. B. p. 17 (1862) ; id. P. Z. S. 18G4, p. 173 ; Dresser, 

 Ibis, 1865, p. 480; Duyhs, La Xatur. i. p. 141 (1868); Cooper, 

 B. Calif, i. p. 131 (1870) ; Scl. S^ Salv. Nomenol. Av. Neotr. p. 13 



(1873) ; Salv. ^- God?n. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 220 (1883) ; 

 Cones, Key JST. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 328 (1884). 



Phsenopepla nitens, Cones, Mis, 1865, p. 163 ; Baird, Rev. Amer. B. 

 p. 416 (1866) : Sumichr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 548 (1869) ; 

 Cones, Key N. Amer. B. p. 110 (1872) ; id. B. N.- West, p. 95 



(1874) ; Baird, Breiver, S,- Ridqw. Hist. N. Amer. B. i. p. 405, 

 pi. 18. tigs. 3, 4 (1874), iii. p. 507 (1874) ; Hensh. Zool. Expl. W. 

 lOOth Merid. p. 229 (1875) ; Ridqw. Rep. Geol. Surv. lOOtk Par. 

 p. 447 (1877) ; Coues, B. Col. Vail. p. 475 (1878). 



Myiadestes townsendi, Brew. Proc. Bast. Soc. N. H. xvi. p. 109 

 (1874). 



Adult male. General colour above glossy blue-black, ■with a 

 greatly developed cresfc ; wing-coverts like the back ; quills black, 

 externally glossy black, the inner webs of the primaries for the 

 most part white ; taU-feathers black, externally washed Avith glossy 

 black; sides of face, ear-coverts, and under surface of body glossy 

 blue-black ; thighs browner ; under tail-coverts black, laterally 

 broadly edged with white ; under wing-coverts and axUlaries black. 

 Total length 6'9 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 3*8, tail 3"S, tarsus 

 0-7. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 dark ashy grey ; lesser wing-coverts dark brown with ashy margins ; 

 median and greater coverts dark brown, margined with white ; 

 bastard-wing and primary- coverts dark brown ; quUls dark brown, 

 edged with ashy, duU white on the inner secondaries, all the 

 primaries much paler on the inner webs ; upper tail-coverts blackish, 

 margined with ashy olive ; tail-feathers black, edged with ashy 

 brown ; liead and neck ashy grey, with an occipital crest of long 

 black feathers margined with ashy ; lores, eyelid, and feathers 

 below the ej'e dusky ; ear-coverts browner ; cheeks, throat, and 

 ■ chest ashy grey ; remainder of under surface brown, including the 

 thighs and under tail-coverts, the latter edged with dull whitish ; 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts ashy brown ; quills dark brown 

 below, ashy on the inner webs. Total length 7'4 inches, culmen 0'5, 

 wing 3*55, tail 3"45, tarsus O'Go. 



Tounrj male. Like the female ; and during the progress to 

 maturity every gradation between the characters of the two sexes is 

 observed. Sometimes nearly all the feathers are skirted with 

 white. (Cones.) 



Hah. Southern, Middle, and Western United States, Arizona, 

 Texas, &c., extending into Northern and Central Mexico. 



o. c? ad. sk. Mexico. Sclater Collection. 



h. $ ad. sk. Mexico (-De Saussure). Sclater Collection. 



