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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part 1. 



Common Chakactees. — General color bluish-ash. Wings and tail glossy 

 greeuish-blaok. Quills edged Internally with white. A broad, large white 

 patch on inuer webs of tail feathers. Crissum egg yellow ; flanks more 

 olivaceous. Tibiae cottony white. 



A. Ptilogonys. Tail a little longer than wings ; nearly even. 



Head ashy. Cheeks and nape (concealed partly by 

 incumbent crest) smoky ash ; forehead and chin 

 whitish, the latter passing into ash of throat and 

 breast. Eye-ring white. White tail patches rect- 

 angular cinereus. 



B. Spkenotelus. Tail almost one and a half times wings ; 



pointed and very cuneate. 

 Head and nape all round olivaceous-yellow ; top of 

 head ashy. Eye-ring yellow. White tail patches 

 lozenge-shaped caudatus. 



Ptilogonys cinereus. 



"Ptilogonys cinereus, SwAiNSON, Ca,tal. Bullock's Mex. Mus. 1824, app. 

 p. 4."— BoN. Consp. 1850, 335.— Cabahis, Mus. Hein. 1851, 55.— 

 Baied, Birds N. Am. 1858,- 319.— Sclatee & Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 13; 

 1860, 31 (Guatemala).— Sclatee, P. Z. S. 1856, 299 (Cordova) ; 

 1858, 302 (Oaxaca) ; 1859, 364 (Jalapa), 379 (Oaxaca; eggs) ; 1864, 

 173 (City of Mexico).— Ib. Catal. 1861, 47, no. 284.—Ptiliogonys 

 cinereus, Swainson, Phil. Mag. I, May, 1827, 368'; Zool. 111. Ser. 2, 

 pi. 62, 120. — Ptiliogonatus cinereus, Swaikson, Zool. Jour. Ill, July, 

 1827, 164. 



Hypothymis chrysorrhoa, Temm. PI. Col. pi. 452. 



Sab. Mountain regions of Mexico, from near northern border : south to 

 Guatemala. 



Ptilogonys cinei'eus, Swainson. (Mesioo.) 



