25. DIVES. 891 



Cassin, Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. 18G6, p. 413; Sd. et Sale. Nomencl. p. 38 ; 



Baird, Brew., et Ridyio. N. A. B. ii. p. ^0(5 ; Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 



p. 493 (Texas) ; Sumiclirast, Mem. Bost. Soc. jV. H. vol. i. p. 553 ; 



Blakiston, Ibis, 18G3, p. 82 (Saskatchewan) ; Coices, Key N. A. B. 



(1884) p. 411. 

 Solecophagus mexicanus, Sw. An. in Menag. p. 302 ; Bp. Cunsp. i. 



p. 423. 

 Quisealus breweri, Aud. B. Am. vii. p. 345, pi. 492. 



Black, ■with green reflections : head and neck all round purplish ; 

 bill and feet black : vrhole length 9 inches, wing 5, tail 4. Female. 

 Dull cinereous blackish ; wings, tail, and rump washed with greenish 

 black ; a slight superciliary line rather lighter. 



Hah. Western and Central States of N. America and south to 

 tableland of Mexico. 



West slope of Rocky J. K. Lord, Esq. [P.]. 



Mountains. 



Fort Bridger, Utah, U.S. Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



i^Drexler). 



Fort Vancouver, N. Pacific Salvin-Godman Coll. 



E.R. Survey, U.S. ( Cooper), 



Pembina, Dakota {Coues). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



California (^Bridges). Sclater Coll. 



California (Boucard). Sclater Coll. 



San Francisco, California. Capt. Kellett and Lt. 



Wood [P.]. 



Red Blufi; N. California U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



(C. H, Toivnsend). 



Fort Whipple, Arizona U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



{Coues). 



Nebraska (Belding). U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



Ciudad Durango, Mexico Salvin-Godmau Cull. 



(^Forrer). 



Near City of Mexico. Salvin-Godman ColL 



OnxncRjS. 'Mexico (FenocJiio). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Mexico (Boucard). Sclater Coll. 



Central America .^ Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 



25. DIVES. Typ,, 



Dives, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. 18G6, p. 413 D. sumichrasti. 



The two larger species assigned to Lampropsar by Cabanis appear 

 to me to go better near the true Quiscali, to which they have both 

 been referred by other authors. Cassin has placed them in Scoleco- 

 phagus under the subgeneric designation Dives, which 1 retain as a 

 genus in its present position, adding thei'cto the so-called Scoleco- 

 phagiis ntroviolaceus of Cuba, which agrees with them in most points 

 of its structure. The bill is shorter and stronger than in Qui.'icalus 

 and kicolecophuipis. 



SaiH/e. Mexico, Cuba, Central America, aud JS'orth-western 

 portion (jf South xVmerica. 



