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at lower end. Claws short, much curved. Inner toe cleft’ nearly to base ; 
basal joint of outer adherent. Outer toe a little longer than inner, reaching 
- a little beyond base of middle claw. 
This genus differs from Myiadestes in scutellate tarsi, smaller feet, , 
more curved ¢laws, crest, tail, ete. Its relationships to Ptilogonys. 
are closer, but the crest is narrow and pointed ; the wing less gradu- 
ated; the first primary much larger; the tail more rounded; the 
feathers much broader. The bill is much narrower and weaker. 
The feet are very similar; the toes rather more cleft, though less 
than in Myiadestes. 
Phenopepila nitens. 
Ptiliogonys nitens, Sw. An. in Menag. 1838, 285.—Bon. Consp. 1850, 
335.—HEERMANN, Jour. A. N. Sc. Phila. II, 1853, 263.—CaAssin, . 
Ill. Birds Texas, ete. 1854, 169, pl. xxix.— Cichlopsis nitens, Barn, 
Birds N. Am. 1858, 320, 923.—Phainopepla nitens, Scuater, P: Z. 8. 
1858, 543; 1864, 173 (City of Mexico). 
“Tepturus galeatus, Luss.” 
Hab. Mountainous portions of western and middle provinces of United 
States, and south to Orizaba; Cape St: Lucas. 
(No. 8,275, %.) Tail broad, almost fan-shaped; graduated slightly; not 
at all emarginate, and longer than wing. First quill broad, slightly faleate, 
scarcely attenuated ; more than half the 2d, which about equals the 10th; 
6th longest ; 3d equal to 7th. Feathers on nape rather full, with a lengthened, 
pointed, narrow occipital crest. 
Male (No. 8,275) entirely glossy greenish-black ; the inner webs of all the 
primary quills with a large, lengthened patch of white, which does not reach 
the inner margin; their outer webs very narrowly edged with ashy, as are also 
lateral tail feathers externally. 
Female (No. 8,274) brownish-ash, paler below; the white of inner webs 
of quills obsolete; the greater coverts and quills edged externally with 
whitish, the anal and crissal feathers edged and tipped with the same; the 
outer tail feather with narrow edge of white externally towards end. 
Immature birds show every gradation of color between the two extremes 
described above. 
(No. 8,275, 4.) Total length, 7.60; wing, 3.80; tail, 4.35 ; difference of 10th 
and longest primary, .54; exposed portion of 1st primary, 1.20, of 2d, 2.20, of 
longest (6th) (measured from exposed base of 1st primary), 2.80; length of 
bill from forehead, .46, from nostril, .31, along gape, .66 ; tarsus, .70; middle 
toe and claw, .65, claw alone, .20; hind toe and claw, .44, claw alone, .20. 
