170 



Measurements. 



Sex. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Culmen. 



Tarsus. 



Middle toe. 



No. of spec- 

 imens. 



? 



15. 00-16. .30 



16. 00-17. 50 



10. 50-11. 00 

 11. 10-12. 00 



1.25 

 1.20 



4. 40-4. 60 

 4. 60-4. 70 



I. 90-1. 95 

 1. 85-2. 10 



6 

 4 



UEUBITIi^GA A]!^THEACIIsrA. 



"Faico anfhracinus Light.", Nitzsch, Pterylography, 1840, 83. — Lafr. Rev. Zool, 1843, 240 



MorpTinus anthracinus Strickl. Orn. Syn, i, 1855, 25. — ScL. P. Z. S. 1857^ 210 

 (Orizaba). 



Uruhitinga anthradna Lake. Rer. Zool. 1848, 241. — ScL. Trans. Zool. Soc. 1858, 262; 

 P. Z. S. 1858, 294 (Oaxaca) ; ib. 1868, 629 (Venezuela) ; ih. 1870, 838 (coast of 

 Honduras).— ScL. & Salv. Ibis, 1359, 216; P. Z. S. 1864, 369 (Panama); Nom. 

 Neotr. 1873, 119. — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii, 1861, p. — (New Granada) ; 

 ib. viii, 1865, 185 (Nicaragua) ; ih. ix, 1868, 133 (Costa Rica) ; Mem. Boston 

 Soc. N. H. ii, 1874, 302 (Mazatlan ; biog. notes).— Salvin, P. Z. S. 1870, 215, 

 (Veragna) ; ih. 338 (Honduras).— Pelz. Orn. Bras. 1871, 394.'— Ridgw. Pr. Bos- 

 ton Soc. N. H. 1873, 63.— Sharps, Cat. Ace. Brit. Mus. 1874, 215. 



Asiurina antliracina Schleg. Mus. Pays-Bas. Asturinse, 1862, 8. 



£uteo mifhracimis Gray, Hand List, i, 1869, 9. 

 Morplinvs mexirnnus Du Bus. Bnll. Ac. Brux. xiv, 1847, pt. 2, 102. — Gray, Gen.App. 1. — 

 Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1848, 239. 



Uruhitinga mtxicana Bonap. Rev. Zool. 1850, 488.— Cassin, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Pliilad. 

 xii, "i860, p. — (Panama). 



]g;aJ). — Tropical America, from Brazil, Guiana, and 'New Granada 

 northward as far as the southern border of the western United States. 

 Arizona (breeding) Bendike and Henshaw. 



Wing, 13.15-15.80 ; tail, 7.90-11.00 ; culmen, 1.00-1.10 ; tarsus, 3.00- 

 3,50 ; middle toe, 1.60-1.80. Third and fifth quills longest, the first 

 intermediate between the eighth and tenth ; outer four with the inner 

 webs slightly sinuated. Tail very slightly rounded, the outer pair of 

 feathersjust appreciably the shortest. Upper tail-coverts Mack charred icith 

 tvJiite. Adult: — General color uuitorm black, with a strong glaucous cast 

 on the back, neck, and breast ; upper tail-coverts narrowly tipped with 

 white; tail deep black, narrowly tipped with white, white at the extreme 

 base and crossed at about the middle by a broad, continuous zone of the 

 same, of variable width. Inner webs and the concealed portion of the 

 outer webs of the secondaries usually (but not always) mottled with 

 rusty ochraceous; terminal half of the bill plumbeous-black; the basal 

 half, the cere, and the rictus yellow ; tarsi and toes yellow ; claws plum- 

 beous-black. Young : — Above brownish-black, more or less variegated 

 with ochraceous and sometimes with rusty on wing-coverts and scapu- 

 lars ; wings indistinctly banded with dark grayish-brown ; head, neck, 

 and lower parts ochraceous-white, with longitudinal stripes of black; 

 tibia^.*trausversely barred with the same ; tail crossed with about seven 

 bands of black and white, the bands of each individual feather oblique; 

 the relative width of the two colors varying with the individual, but the 

 subterminal black band always about twice as broad as the others. 

 Inner webs of secondaries strongly tinged with rufous. Upper tail- 

 coverts white, more or less barred with black. On the head and neck, 

 the streaking is not uniform, but the areas where the light or dark 

 markings predominate respectively are as follows : the gular region, 

 cheeks, and supraoral region are whitish, with fine streaks ; but the 

 pileum and nape, upper half of the auriculars, and maxillary stripe 

 extending across the jugulum are nearly uniformly black, in consequence 

 of the enlargement and blending of the -streaks. "Iris brown; cere 

 and base of bill olive-yellow or greenish ; feet yellow." 



The white tail-bands vary considerably in width with the specimen ; 

 but we cannot discover any rule of difference according to locality or 



