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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



f^ f. : 



" I i. 



Icterla lonfficauda. 



Icteria longicauda, Lawkencb, Ann. N. Y. Lyo. VI, April, 1853, 4.-- 

 Baibii, Birds N. Am. 1858, 249, pi. xxxiv, fig. 2.— Sclateb, Catal. 

 42, no. 253. 



f Icteria auricollia (Light. Mua. B«rl.), Bon. Consp. 1850, 831. 



Hal). WeHtern and middle provinces of United States ; Cape St. Laoas and 

 Mexico ? 



Specimens of this species are in the Smithsonian collection from 

 many points in California and the T?,ocky Mountains as far north us 

 Yreka, Cal., to northern Mexico, ana east to the Upper Missouri, as— 



Locality. 



Ft. I/uokGUt.Mo.Ulv. 

 Ft. Piorio. " 



Loup Fork. 

 Cape St. Lucas. 

 Mexico. 



Wlieo 

 Collected. 



JuuJlT, 'i)6. 

 May 12, 'M. 

 Aujf. 8. 

 Oct. 10. 



Received fmm 



Collected by 



Lt. Warren. 

 Col. VauKhan. 

 Lt. Warren. 

 J. Xautas. 

 Verreaux. 



Dr. IlayUeu. 

 J. Xantns. 



ORANATELLUS. Dubub. 



GranateUus, Dctbus ("Esq. Orn."), Bon. Consp. 1850, 312. 

 venustus, Ddb.) 



(Type G. 



Bill shaped much as in Icteria ; broad and high at the base, scarcely notcbed 

 at tip. Culmen and commissure much curved ; gonys slightly convex ; the 

 upper edge of lower jaw much curved, but straight towards the end. Lower 

 jaw deeper than the upper. Nostrils circular, in anterior end of nasal groore, 

 with membrane against posterior half, but not above it, and with the nasal 

 feathers falling short of their edges, as in some Troglodytidce and Donacobiw. 

 Rictal bristles inconspicuous ; the throat and chin with bristles interspersed 

 among the feathers. Tarsi short ; the scutellte much fused on the sides. 

 Wings considerably shorter than the rounded tail, the feathers of which Lave 

 rounded tips ; the first quill as short as the secondaries. 



I can find no place for this curious form so appropriate as near 

 to Icteria, as although the style of coloration is very different (ashy 

 above, sides white, belly red), the structure is much alike. The 

 bills are quite similar in shape and proportions — being very deep, 

 and the upper mandible much decurved from the base ; there is, how- 

 ever, a very slight faint notch, scarcely appreciable in some speci- 

 mens. A striking difference is in the disproportionate size of the 

 lower jaw, which is actually deeper than the upper, anterior to the 

 nostrils. The naked space just behind the nostrils is also peculiar, 

 as perhaps the absence of membrane above them. The tail is more 

 graduated, and the feathers more rounded than in Icteria, 



