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REVIEW OP AMEEICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



Icteria long'icauda. 



Icteria longicauda, Lawkenoe, Ann. N. Y. Lye. VI, April, 18.53, 4. — 

 Baikd, Birds N. Am. 1858, 249, pi. xxxiv, fig. 2.— Sclateb, Catal. 

 42, no. 253. 



ficteria auricoUis (Light. Mus. Berl.), Bon. Consp. 1850, 331. 



ITab. Western and middle provinces of United States ; Cape St. Lucas and 

 Mexico ? 



Specimens of this species are in the Smithsonian collection from 

 many points in California and the Rocky Mountains as far north as 

 Yreka, Cal., to northern Mexico, and east to the Upper Missouri, as — 



Locality, 



When 

 Collected. 



Eeceived from 



Collected by 



Ft. Lookout, Mo. Riv. 

 Ft. Piene, 

 Loop Fork. 

 Cape St. Lucas. 

 Mexico. 



June 17, 'oG. 

 May 12, '5j. 

 Aug. 5, 

 Oct. 10. 



Lt. Warren. 

 Cul. Vaughan. 

 Lt. Warren. 

 J. Xantus. 

 Verreaux. 



Dr. Hayden. 

 J. Xantus. 



GRANATELLUS, DtTBns. 



Granatellus, DuBus ("Esq. Orn."), Bon. Consp. 1850,312. 

 venustus, Dub.) 



(Type G. 



Bill shaped much as in Icteria ; Inroad and high at the hase, scarcely notched 

 at tip. Culmen and commissure mucli curved ; gonys slightly convex ; the 

 upper edge of lower jaw much curved, but straight towards the end. Lower 

 jaw deeper than the upper. Nostrils circular, in anterior end of nasal groove, 

 with membrane against posterior half, but not above it, and with the nasal 

 feathers falling short of their edges, as in some Troglodytidoe and Donacobius. 

 Riotal bristles inconspicuous ; the throat and chin with bristles interspersed 

 among the feathers. Tarsi short ; the scutellae much fused on the sides. 

 Wings considerably shorter than the rounded tail, the feathers of which have 

 rounded tips ; the first quill as short as the secondaries. 



I can find no place for this curious form so appropriate as near 

 to Icteria, as although the style of coloration is very different (ashy- 

 above, sides white, belly red), the structure is much alike. The 

 bills are quite similar in shape and proportions — being very deep, 

 and the upper mandible much decurved from the base ; there is, how- 

 ever, a very slight faint notch, scarcely appreciable in some speci- 

 mens. A striking difference is in the disproportionate size of the 

 lower jaw, which is actually deeper than the upper, anterior to the 

 nostrils. The naked space just behind the nostrils is also peculiar, 

 as perhaps the absence of membrane above them. The tail is more 

 graduated, and the feathers more rounded than in Icteria. 



