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REVIEW OP AMERICAN RIRDS. 



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BO pontln that few porsons would ever think of sopnrntinj? thcin 

 geniTically. Even in individual spccinionH of th« lonf? I)ilii'<i species 

 there is miieii dinVrcnce in tiiis rcHpcct, allowing that so far from 

 furnishing generic characters, it is not entirely available oven for 

 specific iudlcutiuns. 



Ilurporliynchus riifus. 



Turdw ru/iiH, Link. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, 169, based on CATEsnT, 

 tab. 19.— Ib. SyHt. Nat. I, 17tf(i, 293,—IJnrporhynchus rii/mi, Cab. 

 Mu». Heln. 18.')0, 82.— Baird, BirdB N. Am. lf«68, 3fi3.— Sclatrr, 

 P. Z. !S. 1859, 340.— Ib. Catal. 18G1, 8, no. 4».—AIimua ru/us, Pa. 

 Max. Cab. Jour. 1858, 180. 



Figures : Vikillot, Ois. Am. Sept. II, pi. lix. — Wilson, Am. Orn. II, pi. 

 xiv. — AuD. Orn. Biog. pi. cxvi. 



Sab. United States, east of Rocky Mts., north to Lake Winnipeg. 



In the "Birds of North America" I have called attention to the 

 fact of the larger size, with disproportionat* ly longer tails, and 

 rather more curved bills of specimens from the high plains beyond 

 the Missouri River. 



^7.) 11.20. (2,261.) 9.79. (8,292.) 12.75. Iris orange. (8,819.) 12.00. Iris yellow. 



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.aarporhynchus longirostris. 



Orpheus lorifjirostris, Lafr. R. Z. 1838, 55. — Ib. Mag. de Zool. 1839, Ois. 

 pi. i. — Toxostoma longirostre, Ca3. Wiegm. Arch. 1847, i, 207. — 

 Mimus longirostriK, Sclater, P. Z. S. 185(5,294 (Cordova). — Uarpo- 

 rhynchus lontfirostris, Cab. Mus. Hein. 1850, 81. — Baird, Birds N. 

 Am. 1858, 352, pi. lii.— Sclateb, P. Z. S. 1859, 339.— Ib. Catal. 

 1861, 8, no. 47. 



Ilab. Eastern Mexico ; north to Rio Grande, Texas. 



Among the specimens before me i.s one (28,030) from iSIirndor, 

 Mexico, which differs from the rest in rather deeper rufous above ; 



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