300 TWO CENTENARIES AND A QUARTER 



Inhabits Real del Monte^ Mexico. 



Total length 19^ inches; bill, gape 2 ; wings 8 ; tail, 

 base 10; outer feather 4 inches shorter; tarsus 1^; hind toe 

 and claw \\. Resembles Tenuirostris ; but the bill is stronger, 

 the commissure sinuated, the upper mandible more bent, and 

 the claws more curved. The plumage has a blue, and not a 

 lilac purple gloss. 



60. QuiscALus corvinus. 



Total length 1 7 inches : bill 2 inches long. Plumage 

 black ; richly glossed on the ears and throat with violet 

 purple^ and on the breast^ body, and back with golden 

 green. Inner toe longer than the outer. 



Inhabits North America. 



Total length 17 inches; bill, gape 2; from the front 1^; 

 from the feathers of the nostrils \-^^; wings 7^; tail, from the 

 base 7 ; tarsus Ifg ; hind toe and claw 1^; middle ditto 1^; 

 the claw only ^ ; wings short, not reaching to the end of the 

 upper tail covers ; first quill longer than the fifth. Claw less 

 curved than in Versicolor. Lower part of the back and rump 

 dull black, obscurely glossed with greenish ; first quill nearly 

 as long as the two next: secondaries with mucronated tips.* 



6l. QuiscALUs infiexirostris. 



Bill slender, near 

 ^ inch long; com- 

 missure curved; the 

 margins consider- 

 ably in flexed, and 

 not sinuated. Plu- 

 mage black, glossed with purple on the body, and 

 greenish on the wings, {fig^ 52.) 



Inhabits ? Mus. Nost. Liverpool Institution . 



Size and colour precisely like Q. lugubris ; but the great 

 difference in their bills induces me to consider them quite dis- 

 tinct. In this, the bill is longer and much more slender, the 

 upper mandible and the commissure more curved, but without 

 any sinuosity at the margins, which are also much inflexed. 



• The Quiscalus major of the American ornithologists is stated to have 

 a bill only one inch and three quarters from the angle of the mouth ; but 

 their descriptions, in other respects, are so defective, that it is impossible 

 to determine itscomparative characters with those here defined. 



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