214 NORTH AMERICAN RIRDS. 



C. MEOAQUISCALUS. (Cassis.) Tail loiijror than wings. Soxes very 

 nnlikf. FcniaN- niudi sinallcr, and vitv (liU'crent in color, being olivaceous- 

 brown, ligiitest beneath. Male without varying shades of color; lateral tail- 

 feather about .<U) the niiddh', or less. 



Q. major. Cuhnen strongly def'urved terminally ; bill rolnist. Female 

 with l)ack, nape, and crown like the wnigs ; abdomen nmch darker than 

 throat. 



Lustre of the plumnffe 'jreen, passing into violet anteriorly on head and neck. 



1. Length, 1.'>.U0: wing, T.-'^O ; tail, 7.70, its graduation, 2.50 ; culmen, 

 l.G(>. Female. Wing, 5.10. Ilab. South Atlantic and Gulf coast of 

 United States var. major. 



Lustre, violet passing into green poHteriorly. 



2. Length, 14.00; wing, 0.75 ; tail, 7.*2o, its graduation, 2.40; culmen, 

 1.57. Female. Wing. 5.30; tail. 5.()0. Hah. Western Mexico. (Mazat- 



lan, Colima, etc.) \nv. pahistris.^ 



3. Length, 1S.(>0; wing, 7.70 ; tail, 9.20, its graduation, 3.50; culmen, 

 1.70. Female. Wing, 5.80; tail, ().30. Hab. From Rio Grande of 

 Texas, south through Eastern Mexico ; Mazatlan (accidental?). 



var. macr uru8 

 Q. tenniroBtris.' Culmen scarcely derurvcd terminally ; bill slender. 

 Female with back, nape, and crown very ditferent in color from the wings ; 

 abdomen as light as throat. 



1. Male. Lustre puri)lish-violet, inclining to steel-blue on wing and 

 upper tail-coverts. Length, 15.00 ; wing, 7.00 ; tail, 8.00, its gradua- 

 tion, 3.00. Female. Crown, nape, and back castaneous-brown : rest of 

 upper parts brownish-black. A distinct superciliary stripe, with the 

 whole lower parts as far as flanks and crissum, deep fulvous-ochraceous, 

 lightest, and inclining to ochraceous-white, on throat and lower part 

 of abdomen; flanks and crissum blackish-brown. Wing, 5.10; tail, 

 5.35, its graduation, l.SO; culmen, 1.33; greatest depth of bill, .36, 

 Hab. Mexico (central ?j. 



Quiscalus purpureus, Bartr. 



THE CROW BLACKBIBD. 



Sp, Cn.\R. Bill above, about as long as the head, more than twice as high ; the com- 

 missure moderately sinuated and considerably decurved at tip. Tail a little shorter than 

 the wing, much graduated, the lateral feathers .90 to 1.50 inches shorter. Third quill 



(Cabinet Cyclopivdia, p. 29!», 1S38. — Cass. Pr. A. X. S. 1866, 408). Hab. S. Am., Trinidad. 

 {2) Q. mcxicaniis, Cass. (Pr. A. X. S. 1866, 408K Hob. Mexico. Besides these are the two fol- 

 lowing, whose habitats ai-e unknown : Q. infli:xirostris, SwAixs. (Cab. Cyc. p. 300, 1838), and 

 Q. rccfirosfns, Cass. (Pr. A. N. S. 1866, 409). 



1 QuiscalKs pnlustris (SwAixs.), Cassix, Pr. A. X. S., Phila., 1866, p. 411. {Scaphulurus 

 pal.. Swains. Phil. Mag. 1827, 437). 



2 Quiscalns tcnui-rustris. Swains. Cabinet Cyclopifdia, 1838, p. 299. — Cassin, Pr. A, N. S. 

 1866, 411. The Q. assimilis, Sci.. Cat. Am. B. 1862, 141, from Bogota, an<l Q. prrurianus, 

 Swains. Cab. Cyc. 1838, 354, of Peru, are not in the collection ; they are probably referrible to 

 the major type. 



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