BIRDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 123 



Clara Co., California, 1 spec, Nov., 1899; San Josg, San Jos6 Co., 1 spec, 

 Oct. 28, 1898).— Mailliakd, Condor, iii, 1901, 125 (Paicines, San Benito Co., 

 California, winter res.J.— Bkewster, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, 1902, 171 

 (San Jos6 del Eancho, La Paz, etc., Lower California, resident). — Bailey 

 (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. V. S., 1902, 390, fig. 481. 



[Phainopepla] nitens Solatbr and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 13. 



P[hdinopepla] nitens Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 328. 



Plhainopepla] nitens Eidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 465. 



Phxnopepla nitens Codes, Ibis, April, 1865, 163, in text (Arizona); Proc Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Philad., 1866, 71 (Fort Whipple, Arizona); 1868, 83 (Arizona); Check 

 List, 1873, no. 120; Birds N. W., 1874, 95 (song); Birds Col. Val., 1878, 

 475.— Baied, Review Am. Birds, 1866, 416 (Fort Crook, Fort Tejon, and 

 Colorado Desert, Cahfornia, etc.).— Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc N. H., i, 

 1869, 548 (plateau dists. Vera Cruz, down to 7,000 ft.).— Cooper, Am. Nat., 

 viii, 1874, 17 (Ouyamaca Mts. California). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 405, 507, pi. 18, figs. 3, 4.— Yaeeow and Hen- 

 SHAW, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv. for 1871 (1874), 34.— Henshaw, Rep. 

 Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv. for 1873 (1874), 106 (Apache and Mount Turn- 

 bull, Arizona); Zool. Exped. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 229 (Nevada; Camps 

 Apache, Bowie, Lowell, and Mount Turnbull, Arizona). — (?) Ridgwav, Orn. 

 40th Parallel, 1877, 447 (Soda Lakes, Carson Desert, Nevada; 1 spec, June, 

 1868); Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 65 (Calaveras Co., California, May). 



[Phsnopepla] nitens Codes, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 116. 



Lepturus galeatus Lesson, Rev. Zool., 1849, 4. 



Myiadestestovmsendi (error) Brewer, Proc Bost. Soc. N. H., xvi, 1874, 109 (descr. 

 nest and eggs). 



Genus PHAINOPTILA Salvin. 



Phainoptilaa Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., Apr. 17, 1877, 367. (Type, P. 

 melanoxantha Salvin. ) 



Ptilogonatidfe without crest, with tarsus longer than middle toe and 

 claw, booted or very indistinctly scutellate,'' and with the tail much 

 shorter than wing. 



Bill about half as long as head, rather compressed, strongly carinate; 

 width at frontal antise decidedly less than distance from nostril to tip 

 of maxilla, very little if at all greater than its depth at same point; 

 culmen strongly ridged, straight basally, gi'adually decurved termi- 

 nally, the tip of maxilla distinctly but not abruptly uncinate; maxil- 

 lary tomium nearly straight, distinctly notched subterminally; gonys 

 about equal to unfeathered portion of mandibular rami, slightly but 

 decidedly convex. Nostril large, wholly exposed, broadly ovate, nar- 

 rowly margined above, more broadly behind, by membrane, and with 

 a distinct exposed inner tubercle. Rictal bristles distinct. Ninth pri- 

 mary shorter than first, the seventh, sixth, and fifth longest; three 

 outermost pi'imaries normal in form. Tail decidedly shorter than wing 

 (about equal to distance from bend of wing to tip of longest seconda- 

 ries), slightly rounded, the rectrices rather broad, of normal form, 



« " (pasivoi, splendent, et icriXov, pluma." 

 ^ Except in young. 



