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U. S. P. R, R, EXP. AND SURVEYS—ZOOLOGY—GENERAL REPORT. 
This genus has a much narrower and more depressed bill than Ptilogonys. The feet are 
similar, but;with more curved claws, and with no feathers on the upper part of the tarsus. 
first quill is much larger ; indeed it can scarcely be called spurious ; the fourth, fifth, and sixth 
are successively a little longer than the third ; the outer primaries not acuminate. 
of narrow linear feathers, instead of a short, broad, and full one. 
CICHLOPSIS NITENS, Baird. 
The 
The tail is 
much broader, widening to the tip ; it is rounded, or graduated, instead of forked. The head has 
Ptilogonys nitens, Swarnson, Anim. in Menag. 2} Cent. 1838, 285.—Bonap. Consp. 1850, 335.\—Hrermann, J. A. N. 
Se. II, Jan. 1853, 263.—Cassin, Ilust. I, 1854, 169 ; pl. xxix. 
Lepturus galeatus, Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1849, 4 . 
‘© Hypothymys nitens, Larr.’’ 
Sp. Cu.—Head with an elongated occipital crest. 
which equals the secondaries ; sixth quill longest. 
Exposed portion of spurious quill about half the length of the second, 
Tail graduated. Male throughout ofa uniform lustrous black, glossed with 
green. Inner webs of the primaries white, except at the base, tips, and margins. Female, ash color, paler beneath; the quills, 
wing, and lower tail coverts and outer tail feathers edged with whitish ; rest of tail feathers blackish. 
wing, 3.90; tail, 4.30. 
Hab.—Valley of Gila and southern Colorado to upper Rio Grande ; west to Fort Tejon ; east to Coahuila, Mexico. 
Length of male, 7.75 ; 
There is some difference in the size of specimens, one from the Colorado desert being con- 
siderably smaller than 3964 from Coahuila. 
than the male. 
List of specimens. 
The female has the crest rather less conspicuous 
i é. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
AMESChOLuEee ee 
Kenn. and Moll_. 
Dr. Kennerly ---) 
ACP Schottmesscee 
Catal. Sex | Locality. ‘When collected.| Wherce obtained. 
No. 
Hoctele} ony Caller | eae ae to 3| J. X. DeVesey--- 
8273 | Q | Fort Yuma- --------) Nov. 25_----- Major Emory----| 
8281 |.---| Camp 120 N. Mexico-| Feb. 12, 1854 | Lt. Whipple ---- 
8282 |----| Camp 113. N. Mexico-) Feb. 5, 1854 |._..~- Osse=e——= 
82/i0ule= | WortwVumas es eetee eee ace one oe Major Emory---- 
8274 | O | Colorado desert...--- Yet Miya esi Lt. Williamson- - 
OHS 68 |bacoee eee ee |-Sueb eres hee dowiee ne 
4591 |....| Gila river, N. M_--.- Seapets Rat std Major Emory ---- 
8280 2aa- |e hostNorales Me xnm= alee. jenetts eee eee d0bseassn= 
JOP} | O)  enlkisshierg, NG Wise 655) Bese cea eases |seccos doje 222 
a GAa ee COOK Biwell (Cale 2 \\ Le ae 2s ce eal eeeereee! Gosssseece 
82716 |-_.-| Mimbres to Rio Grandej_--.---.------ Dr. Henry 
3964 | 3 | Coabnila,Mexjessces|s aces eee see Lt. Couch 
MYIADESTES, 
. 
Swainson. 
Myiadestes, Swainson, Naturalist’s Library. Flycatchers, 1838. Type Muscicapa armillata, Vieill. 
Cu.—Head not crested. Bill rather narrower than the length of the culmen ; much depressed ; somewhat attenuated at 
Tarsi without feathers above or scutellae ; shorter than the middle toe. 
the end ; lateral outline rather concave. 
rather shorter than the outer lateral toe, which barely reaches the base of the middle claw. 
formér shorter, quite deeply forked, but the outer lateral feather abruptly graduated, and a little longer than the innermost ; 
the feathers all broad at the base, and tapering to the tip. 
a quarter of an inch less than the longest. 
Spurious primary nearly one-fourth the longest, (third ;) the second 
Hind toe 
Tail and wings very long; the 
