C-KHKUn).!'; - TIIK CliKKI'KltS 



11'. J 



A.Mrt.v 



CJEREBIDiEI. — TiiK CiiiiKi-Kits. 



Aa iilmidy statcl nil ,„,.,. 177, iliciv is lilll.^ to distin-iuisli tlic r,.,v/,,V/rr 



fn.ni tl.ci -SynV<;//,/.r, ,tx(T|.l l.v tlu, lnii-..r iin.l iwnv. |.n.ln,cl(.,l K ii<. im,l 



l.y the mnnwv.v -apo in .s.,i,„. .,r tl„. Inniis. TIk^ o,,,u,,u Cni/uo/n, Cnrha 

 Diijloss,,, v.U:., lu.vc pe,-i.lin.iti,.s l.y wln,.|, tlicv niv nasilv ivn«„iz,,I ; luit 

 wIuMi wo anm U> sii.li ,mciii1.,.i.s ms /).>nu\ (',miros/nn>,. otc.,"it l.fci.mcs 

 vory (lillic.ill to sopanil.- llu'ii. IVuiu i\w, sU.n.Ua'-l.ill.Ml TanaKors, tlu; Wood 

 WarMiTs, and tluj //i7iiiiii//i(iji/iiii/(is. 



AkI.ou-li till! lainily is on., widely dislHl.iKr.l, in nunuTous uvucni, over 

 Middle and South America, l>ur one, (',rthn,l„, holon-.s tu Xo.rii America 

 this heinu ivpresented hy a species, or mlher a race, alamdant in tlie i'.aha- 

 nias, and oc.Msionally nuit with in the I'lori.ia Keys. W,; shall thereloro 

 give only tlie dia,iinosis of this lamilv. 



Ckni 



, CERTHIO.L A, S 1 • n ni;v a i.r.. 



CM.,, SrN,.,:VA,.,„ V.t. \U.\. lla.Mll. S(.„:klu,ln,. is:i^, !•,.. ,Tv,„., C'crthl,, flaveoln, 



Gkn. Crvii. Hill n...uly ms 1„„- a. the „] ; ,,. |,i,.-h as hroad at l.as.., olnn.ratc.l roriical 



very acute, and .■.'ciitly (livnrv.M Irmii 1ms,. to tip. 

 Culiiicii iiiiill.niily convex ; u-imys coiieavc. N,. 

 lil-isilrsat l.asc of liill. Tail foiiiide,!. lallicr sluirtcr 

 tliaii the wiii-s. Tarsi li,ii.r,M- than the iiiiclilic toe. 

 Iris hiowM y Xest |.,Misili' ami aivlie.l. Mo-us with 

 yellowish ^n-oiiiiii iIwIIimI tlii.:ldy with nifoiis spots. 



Orlliinlii Jliivcnlu, Suri.l. 



This oeniis is one of tlios.i e.sjKu/iidly cliar- 

 iicterizin-,' the West Indies, almost" every 

 island as I'ar as known liavin.i;' its peculiar 

 species, diU'erinn', it is true, in very sliuht 

 cIiaractor.s l,„t always e.aistant to the iionnal typo. Cul.a alone has so far 

 Inrnishe.l no representative of this oenus, its place l.eim- supplied ap- 

 parently by Conha n,,n„,,. The sj-ecimens from St. Thomas I cannot 

 distinj^nsh irom those of !»■ rto Hico, hut this is, so far as the series l,ef\.re 

 nic indietites, the only ctise where one species occurs on two islands AH 

 the West Indian species, nine or ten it. nuinher. a-ree in havin- the whole 

 upper part netirly uniformly dusky or blackish; the het.d and' back bein- 

 concolore,!, while of the three or four South Amorictin all but one (C 

 lafcoh) have the back more .diva..eous, the hetul much darker Aoain 

 the West In.lian species, with a, sinnle exception (C. han.mirora), have both 

 webs ot lateral ttiil-fetithers broadly and aln.ut e.,ually tip,.ed with white- 

 w'lule in all the South American this white is more restricted on the inner 

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