438 ‘APPENDIX. 
. Bill large, compressed from the base, entire, the edges angular, 
hardly bent in; upper mandible curyed from the middle, longer than 
the lower, with an osseous prominence in the middle; tongue bifid 
at tip; nostrils half closed by a membrane. 
Q. major, Bonap. I, p. iv, f..1 and 2 (Graeula barrita of authors, 
Jackdaw of the south). Black, with a blue gloss mixed with purple; 
head and neck purples iris yellow. Female dusky; back, wings 
and tail with a slight bluish gloss; head and neck dark brown; throat, 
breast and belly, brown. '? 
Q. versicolor, Vieill. Wils. III, p. xxi, f. iv (Grac. quiscula of au- 
thors). Black, with a bluish gloss, mixed with purple; head and 
neck with a purple gloss; iris yellow. Female more dusky. Both 
these species are similar in their manners, are gregarious, and com- 
mit great devastation in fields of grain. 
Q. ferrugineus, Bonap. Wils. III, p. xxi, f. 3 (Grae. ferruginea of 
authors). Black, with feathers more orless tipped with ferruginous. 
N.B. Previous to the labours of M. C. Bonaparte, these three 
birds were not understood. It is needless to occupy any space in 
commenting on the errors that have hitherto existed respecting 
them. ° 
XXIV. 
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Add, Tot. macularius, Temm. Wils. VIII, p. lix, f. 1. The Pha- 
laropus frenatus alluded to by our author in note (3) is not figured in 
Wilson, IX, p. lxiii, f. 3. The bird there represented is the Lobipes 
Wilsonii of Sabine. ’ Ja 
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XXV. 
Here should come the genus Aramus, Vieill. characterized as 
follows.—Bill much longer than the head, cleft beneath the eyes, 
compressed, straight, curved, and somewhat turgid at tip; upper 
mandible slightly furrowed, the lower turgid towards the middle, 
angular beneath, acute; nostrils in wide orifices, linear, pervious; 
lores naked; feet long; toes divided to their base, hind toe long. 
lr. scolopaceus, Vieill. Brown glossed with green; feathers longi- 
tudinally white in the middle; rump, quill, and tail feathers imma- 
culate. Inhabits Georgia and Florida, Bonap. Syn. p. 308. 
