riEEOXID^: riEEOS. OE CtEEEXLETS. 



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Tail-feathers ividenint; a little toward the end. the tail thus becoming squarish or fan-shaped ; 

 even or little rounded at their ends. 



Myiadestixj:. — BiU very short, much depressed, widened at base, deeply cleft. Legs 

 weak. T;ul-feathers taperiug, the tail being thus rendered somewhat cuneate, and double- 

 rounded at end. 



58. 



169. 



MYIADESTES. (Gr. 

 muia. a liy, and e'SfO-rijf. 

 tc.<. au eater.) 



flVl 



Fig. 1S7. — Generic det.iils of Miiiadiftts (Af. townsauU : bill and 

 foot nat. size, ^"ing and t.oil ^V i;Fi-om Baird.") 



Fly-catchixg 

 Thrushes. Characters of the 

 snbfunily as above given. 

 M. town seiidi. (To J. K. 



Townsend.') TowxSExn's Fly- 

 CATCHKG Theush. (7 9 : Gen- 

 eral color dull brownish-ash. 

 paler below, bleaching ou the 

 throat, lower belly, and crissum. 

 Wings blackish, the inner sec- 

 ondaries edged and tipped vrixh 

 white, nearly all the qmlls ex- 

 tensively tawny or fulvous at 

 the base, and several of the in- 

 termediate ones again edged ex- 

 ternally toward their ends with the same color. In the closed wiug, the basal ta^vny slu'ws 

 upon the outside as an oblique spot in the recess between the greater coverts and the bastard 

 quills, separated by an obhque bar of blackish from the second tawny patch on the outer webs 

 of the q uills near their ends. Tail like the wings (the middle pair of leathers more nearly like 

 the back) : the outer feather edged and broadly tipped, the next one more naiTowly tipped, \vith 

 white. A white ring around the eye. Bill and feet black. Eyes bnnru. Length about S 

 iuches ; iviug and tail about equal, i. 00— 1.50 ; the latter forked centrally, graduated laterally ; 

 bill 0.50; tai"sus 0.75 ; middle toe and claw rather more. Yotmg : Speckled at first, like a 

 very young thrush : each feather ■with a triangirlar L>r rounded spot of duU ochraceous or 

 tawny, edged with blackish. Western 17. S., from the eastern foot-hills of the Rocky Mts. 

 to the Pacific ; X. to British Colmnbia. A bird not less strange and uuhke annhing seen in 

 the east than the Fhahiopepla : inhabiting woodland and shrubbery, feeding on insects and 

 berries, and capable of musical expression in an exalted degree. Xest on the ground or in 

 rubbish near it, loosely made of grasses : eggs about 4, bluish-white, freckled with reddish- 

 brown, 0.95 X O.ti?. 



14. Fannly VIREONID-ffi; : Vireos. or Greenlets. 



Small dentirostral Oscincs. related to the Shrikes, with hooked 

 bill, 10 primaries and extensively coherent toes. Bill shorter 

 than the head, stout, compressed, distinctly notched and hooked 

 at tip ; rictus with conspicuous bristles ; nostrils exposed, over- 

 bung with a scale, but reached by the suiall bristly erect fi-imtal 

 feathers. Toes soldered at base for the whole length of the basal 

 joint of the middle one, which is united with the basal joint of 

 the inner and the two bas;\l joints of the outer, all these coherent 

 Fio. ISS— WarWingVireo, re- phalanges very short. (Lateral toes unequal in the genus Virei\) 

 dneed. ^From Tenney.) Tiirsus^Hqual to or longer than the middle toe and "claw, scutel- 



late in front, laterally undivided, except at extreme base. "Wings moderate, of 10 primaries, of 



