SYNONYMY AND CHARACTERS OF P. NITENS 475 



Crested Shilling-black White-winged 

 Flysnapper 



Pbsenopepla nitons 



Ptilogonys nitons, Sw. " Anim. in Monag. in Lardner's Cab. Cyclop. Birds, pt. iii. 1838, 

 285" (orig. desar. ; some say 1837). Bp. CA. i. 1850, 335 (synon. and diagn.). Heerm. 

 Jouru. Phila. Acad. iL 1853, 262 (California ; note of habits). Cos*. Illust. 1854, 169, 

 pi. 29 (general history). Henry, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1855, 303 (New Mexico). Heerm. 

 PRRR. x. 1859, 33 (California). 



Cichlopsis nitens, Bd. BNA. 1858, 320 (synonymy and description). 



Phainopcpla niicns, Scl. PZS. 1858, 543 (t.ypeof genus). Bd. BNA. 1858, 923 (description). 

 Bd. U. S. Mex. B. Surv. ii. pt. ii. 1859, Birds, 11 (Arizona, etc.). Kenn. PERK. x. 1859, 

 25 (New Mexico or Arizona). Bd. Pr. Phila. Acad. 1859, 303 (Cape St. Lucas). 

 Xant. Pr. Phila. Acad. 1859, 191 (California). Henry, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1859, 106 (New 

 Mexico). Bd. Ives's Rep. Colo. R. 1861, pt. v. 5. Scl. Cat. AB. 1862, 47 (synonymy). 

 Scl. PZS. 1864, 173 (City of Mexico). Dress. Ibis, 1865, 480 (Eagle Pass, Texas). 

 Coop. Am. Nat. iii. 1869, 34, 183 (Cajon Pass, Cal.). Coop. B. Cal. i. 1670, 131 (general 

 account). Yarrow, Rep. Orn. Specs. 1874, 34 (Nevada, Bischoff). 



Phicnopepla nitens, Coues, Ibis, 1865, 163 (Arizona). Coues, Pr. Phila, Acad. 1866, 71 

 (Arizona). Cottes, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1863, 83 (Arizona). Bd. Rev. AB. 1866, 416, fig. 

 (critical). Coues, Key, 1872, 116 (description). Coues, BNW. 1874, 95 (note on the 

 song). Coues, Am. Nat. viiL 1874, 542 (correction of Brewer's error see infrd,). 

 Coop. Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 17 (Cuyamaca Mountains). B. B. A R. NAB. i. 1874, 405, 

 figs. pi. 18, f. 3, 4 (general history); iii. 1874,507 (nest and eggs). Hensh. Rep. Orn. 

 Specs. 1874, 106 (Arizona) Hensh. List B. Ariz. 1875, 157 (same). Hensh. Zool. ExpL 

 \V. 100 Merid. 1875, 229 (habits). -Ridgw. Rep. Surv. 40th Par. 1877, 447 (Nevada; 

 habits). 



fly pot by mis nitens, "ia/r." 



Lepturus galeatus, Less. "Compl. Buffon, 1838, ; Rev. Zool. 1849, 4". 



" Myiadestes townsendi ", Brew. Pr. Bost. Soc. xvi. 1873 (pub. 1874), 109 (error; nest and 

 eggs of Phcenopepla nitens described as those of M. townsendi). 



Black Fly-catcher, Black Ptilogonys, Shining-crested Flycatcher, Shining Ptilogonys, 

 Aliq. locis passim supra citatis. 



HAB. Mexico ; Lower California ; southern portions of the Middle and 

 Western Provinces of the United States (Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, 

 Southern California, Southern Nevada, and probably portions of Utah and 

 Colorado). 



CH. SP. Cristata. $ Chalybeo-atra, remigibus spatio magno 

 albo. 9 griseo fusca, infra dilutior speculo alari obsolete, alis 

 cauddque nigricantibus, albido limbatis. 



, adult : Entirely rich lustrous black, with steel-blue or greenish reflec- 

 tions. Primaries with a largo white space on the inner webs. Bill and feet 

 black. Length about 7 inches; "extent, Hi"; wing, 3f-3f ; tail, 3-4i; 

 bill, $-4- ; tarsus, - ; middle toe and claw, |-f . 



9 , adult : Crested, like the male. Entirely brownish-gray, paler beneath, 

 the wings and tail blackish, the white on the inner webs of the primaries 

 much reduced or extinguished, and in its stead much whitish edging of the 

 quills and coverts, tail-feathers, and crissum. 



Young, $ : Like the $ ; and during the progress to maturity every grada- 

 tion between the characters of the two sexes is observed. Sometimes nearly 

 all the feathers are skirted with white. 



