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NORTH AMERICAN' BIRDS. 



racks, in Texas, by ^Ir. J. H. Clark, 

 •with is not indicated by liim. 



Emberna^rtt nifivlrgata. 



The season when tliese birds were met 



It is stated by ]\Ir. Sumiclirast 

 tliat this species is I'ound throughout 

 botli the temperate and the hot dis- 

 tricts of the State of Vera Cruz, 

 Mexico. He also mentions that he 

 has found this bird in localities quite 

 remote from each other, and belong- 

 ing both to the hot and to the tem- 

 peiiite regions. In the latter it is 

 found to the height of at least four 

 thousand feet. 



This species was met with by Mr. 

 Boucard, during the winter months, 

 at riaza Vicente, in the hot low- 



lands of the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. 



SiiiiAMiLv FASSERELLINiE. 



Char. Toes ami cl.iws \n-y stout ; the lateral flaws reaching beyond the middle of the 

 middle one; all very slightly cuived. 



Bill conical, the outlines straight ; both mandibles equal ; wijigs long, 

 longer than the even tail or 

 .slightly rounded, reaching 

 nearly to the middle of its 

 exposed jiortion. Hind daw 

 bnger than its digit ; the toe 

 nearly as long as the middle 

 toe ; tarsus longer than the 

 middle toe. Brown altovc;, 

 either iniiformly ,so or faintly 

 streaked ; triangular spots 1 le- 

 low. 



This section embraces a Passerdia nhoi. 



single North American genus, chiefly characterized by the remarkable elon- 

 gatitm of the lateral claws, as well as by the ])eculiar sha])e and large size 

 of all the clavs ; the lateral, esjiecitilly, are so much lengthened as to extend 

 nearly as far as the middle. Tlie only approacli to tiiis, as far as I recollect, 

 among Ignited States Conirostroi, is in Pijnlo mcgixlonyx, and Xanthocc^)halus 

 ideroccplmlm. 



