302 TWO CENTENARIES AND A QUARTER 



65. ScoLEcoPHAGUS mifior. 



Bill thick, short. Plumage black, richly glossed with 

 purple. Tail rounded : wings hardly 4 inches long. 

 Icterus minor, Spix, pi. 63. f. 2. 



Inhabits Brazil. 



In structure and colour precisely resembling the last, of 

 which, but for its rounded tail, and much smaller size, I should 

 have thought it a variety. Total length 6^ inches; bill, gape 

 ^^•, wings hardly 4 ; tail, beyond, 1^; base 3-^; tarsus fg ; 

 inner toe rather shortest. 



6Q. ScoLEcoPHAGUs Mexicanus. 



Black, glossed with purple on the head and throat, 

 and with greenish on the rest of the plumage : base of 

 the under mandible flattened : first quill longer than 

 the fourth, {fig. 344. d) 



Inhabits Mexico. 



Rather larger than S. ferruginus, but resembling it in ge- 

 neral structure. Total length 9-^^ inches ; bill, from the gape 

 ^; wings 5\; tail, base 4^; tarsus 1-^; middle toe and claw 

 i ; hind ditto \\. In S. ferruginus, the first quill is rather 

 shorter than the fourth, the bill is not so strong, and the base 

 of the under mandible is rounded. 



67. Icterus tibialis. 



Black. Tail lengthened. Thighs and shoulder covers, 

 both above and beneath, pure yellow. 



Inhabits Brazil. Mus. Nost. 



Size and habit of /. Cai/enensis.* Total length 8^ inches ; 

 bill straight, from the gape f^ ; front -^^ ; wings 3i ; tail, be- 

 yond, 21 ; base 4\ ; tarsus f^. 



(38. Agelaius ruficollis. 



Glossy black : front, crown, forepart of the neck, and 

 breast, chestnut. 



Inhabits the province of Pernambuco in Brazil : ex- 

 cessively rare. Mus. Nost. 



Total length 7 inches; bill, gape -/g ; ditto, front ^; 

 wings S^; tail, beyond, 1^''^; ditto, base 3; tarsus 1; mid- 

 dle toe and claw Ij-j. The second, third, and fourth quills 



* Zool. 111. ii. pi. 22. 



