Ki!iN'(iii.t.iD.K — Tin-: KIXniKS. 



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equal; the secoml quill 1onfr<*s:t ; tlie first less than the fniirth. Tail very nearly even, 

 shorter than the witiirs. 



Tlic sinj^le Xorth Ameri- 

 can spcries of this genus has 

 no near relative in tropi( al 

 America ; indeed, no other 

 species at ])resent knctwn 

 can be said to be strictly 

 conueneric. 



In all essential details of 

 external structure, and in 

 every respect as to habits 



and niditication, the type of 



the genus {G. candea) is 



much more like the species of f\//c(nofipim than those of Half/miles, with 



which latter it has usually l)een included. 



Guiraca csenilea, Swaixsok 



BLTTE 6B0SBEAK. 



Lo.ci'i ccrriilr", Linn. Syst. Xat. I, 176rt, 306. — Wilson, Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, 7S, \\. xxiv, 

 f. 6. - .'Waiw.ki;, Isis, 1831, 52'j. Guirnoi cirrvlra, Swainson, Birds Mcx. in Tliil. 

 MajT;. I, 1827, 438. — Daiiu), Birds N. Am. 1858, 41»9. — ('ooi>i.i:, Orii. Cal. I, 2oO. 

 Fromilln. ca:ruJio, Am. Orn. r>i()U- H, 1831, 14n ; V, ")M8, pi. cxxii. CoeaifHjrus 

 cirrukm, Sw. Birds II, 1837, 277. — All). Syn. Is31>. -In. liirdsAm. III. 1841, 204, 

 1.1. cciv. — Cabams, Mns. Ihin. 18'>1, l."»2. — Finscu, Al.h. Xat. linin. 1870, 339 

 (Mazatlan). Ciionoloiia arrnlcn, P) p. Conspectus, l8r>0. r»r»2. duninphceii CKruka, Br. 

 Bloc (irosbcnl; Pfnnant, Arc. Zo.d. II, 1785, ?">1. 



Sp. Chak. Brilliant blue; darker acros^s the middle of the back. "^ pace around base 



ot" the bill aiid lores, with tail- feat her.«. 

 black. Two bands on the winrr across the 

 lips of the middle and ."^ei-ondarv coverts, 

 ■with outer edires of tertiari;.s. reddish- 

 brown, or perhaps chestnut. Feathers on 

 the posterior portion o\' the under sur- 

 face tipi>ed narrowly with irrayish-white, 

 Len.irth, 7.'2.') : w in jjr. :i. •"»<>: tail. 2.80. 



FeiiKtle yellowish-brown above, brown- 

 ish-yellow beneath ; tlarkest across the 

 breast. Wincr-coverts and tertials broadly 

 edirt d with bntwnish-yellow. Someliinesa 

 fiiint trace of blue on the tail. The younir 

 resemble-; the femah'. 



[Tap., ^^ore southern T'nited States from 

 Atlantic to Pacilic. south to Costa Ri(\i. 



Xalapa (Scl. 1850. 30.',) ; Oaxaca (Sol. 18r,9. 378); Cordova (S<l. IS.-,(5. ;UH) ; Cuba (Cab. 



J. IV. 9); Vera Pa/. (Salvix, Ibis. HI. 3.72); Costa Ki,a (Lawk. IX. 102); Vera Cruz, 



winter i^vw. M. B. S. I. r>r,2): Yucatan (Lawh. IX. 2(I0). 



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