c-KKKDiD.K- TiiK ci:i:i:im:k: 



42') 



K\Miiv CiBREBIDiE 



Tm: ('i:ki:tm:i;s. 



As alivudy stal«Ml on jiaut- 177, iIktc is liitic to distinuuisli the Co ri h/'Jfr 

 IVoiu the Si//riro/ii/tt\ cxct'id hy tin* longer and iiKirc pi-ntiactfd tfUi.iiiic, and 

 Itv the naiiowt'i" ^apti in .sunn- nl" tlic tnrnis. Tlic ^^t-ntMii C^rthnthf, Canlm, 

 Dltjlossii, etc., liavf pL'culiaritii's hy wliirli tlicy arc easily rccn^iiizcd ; Imt 

 when we cnnie t(» siuli njcndxTs as lhir,ii-<, f'onirosfrtnti, etc., it Itecnnies 

 very dinicult to se})arate tlieni IVoni the slendri-iiilh'd TanaL^'ers, the Wood 

 AVaihU'is, an<l tlu; /fi /tin/if/m/i/int/tis. 



Although the laniilv is one widely distiilnited, in numerous «renera, over 

 Miildle and Soutli Anicriea, lait one, Crrf/nu/it, iielon^s to Xortli America, 

 this ])chv^ represented l>y a sjH'cies, or rather a race, altundant in the l>aha- 

 mas, and occasionally nu't witli in the Florida Keys. We shall therefore 

 Jtive onlv the dia^no-is of this familv. 



Gr.M s ^CERTHIOLA, SixoKVALr.. 



Cerlhiohi, SrNHF.VAr.L, V.-t. Ak;i 1. llaiuli. Stockholm, IS.}.'), W. (Type, Ccrthin fiaveoht, 



Gkn. (*ii ai:. nil! nearly as Vnv* as the lipad : as liiijh as Uroad at liasc. olonirated, conical, 

 verv acute, and p'litiy <l('»-mv»'il t'loui liasc to tip. 

 riiliiHMi uuitormly coiivrx : irouys conravc. X<> 

 bristles at l>a>e of bill. Tail rotni»le<|, rather shorter 

 than the winirs. Tarsi Ittnufi- than the niiiMle toe. 

 Iiis hrown ? Xest pensile and an-htMl. Ki^trs with 

 vellttwish 'jfioiind dotted thieklv with rufous snots. 



This iienus is one of those especiallv char- 

 acterizinj; the West Indies, almost every 

 islainl as far as kmtwn havinu its peculiar 

 s}>ecies, di tiering', it is trui*, in very slight 

 characters, hi't always constant to the normal type 

 fmnished ni) re])resentative of this licnus. its ]»lace heiiii^ sti])])lie(l ap- 

 ])arently hy Cotrlxt rt/((iit«(. The s])ecimens from St. Thomas I cannot 

 distinguish from those of Porto IJico, Init this is, so far as the series before 

 me indicates, the oidy case where one s[)ecies occurs (^n two islands. All 

 the West Indian s])ecies, nine or ten in niunher. a-'ree in havin«>" the wlude 

 upper part nearly uniformly dusky or hlackish ; the head and hack heing 

 concolored, whih' of the three or tour South American all hut one (C 

 hffm/it) have the hack more (di\aceous, the head much darker. Aujain, 

 the West Indian species, with a single excei)tion ('('. hinwnii'ora), have hoth 

 webs of lateral tail-feathers broadly and about e<[ually tipj)ed with white; 

 while in all the South American this white is more restricted on the inner 



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CtvUi iiilii jhi rnola, Suiul. 



Cuba alone has so far 



