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CoMMOK CiiARACTEBS. — General color bluish-ash. Wings and tail glossr 

 grueuish-black. Quills edged internally with white. A broad, large white 

 patch on inner webs of tail feathers. Crissum egg yellow ; flanks more 

 olivaceous. Tibiae cottony white. 



A. Pnlogonyg. Tail a little longer than wings ; nearly even. 



Head ashy. Cheeks and nape (concealed partly by 

 incumbent crest) smoky ash ; forehead and chin 

 whitish, the latter passing into ash of throat and 

 breast. Eye-ring white. White tail patches rect- *^ ''"^ 

 angular ........ cinerm, 



B. Sphenotelus. Tail almost one and a half times wings ; 



pointed and very cuneate. 

 Head and nape all round olivaceous-yellow ; top of 

 head ashy. Eye-ring yellow. White tail patches 

 lozenge-shaped caudahis, 



Ptiloponys cinereus. ,. ' ,, .„ .yr yy* 



"Ptilogonys cinereus, SwAiNsoN, Catal. Bullock's Mex. Mus. 1824, app. 

 p. 4."— Bon. Consp. 1850, 335.— Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1851,55.- 

 Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 319.— Sclater & Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 13; 

 1860, 31 (Guatemala).— ScLATEB, P. Z. 8. 1856, 299 (Cordova); 

 1858, 302 (Oaxaca) ; 1859, 364 (Jalapa), 379 (Oaxaca; eggs) ; 1864, 

 173 (City of Mexico).— Ib. Catal. 1861, 47, no. 284.— Ptiliogonyt 

 cinerens, Swainson, Phil. Mag. I, May, 1827, 368 ; Zool. 111. Ser. 2, 

 pi. 62, 120. — Pliliogonatus cinereus, Swainson, Zool. Jour. Ill, July, 

 1827,164. 



Hypothymis chrysorrhoa, Tehm. PI. Col. pi. 452. '* ' 



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