PHjENOPEPLA. 



415 



The crest of this species appears longer than in civereus ; the 

 tail is very differently shaped in the great prolongation and acute- 

 ness of the central feather (almost one-half longer than the lateral), 

 and the graduation of the rest, instead of being nearly even. These 

 feathers, too, are narrower. The outer quills appear rather less 

 attenuated. The principal difference in color consists in the yellow- 

 ish-grecn of the head and neck all round, relieved only by the gray 

 of top of head ; the ring round eye yellow, not white ; the encroach- 

 ing on flanks and front of belly of the yellowish-green ; the lozenge- 

 shaped rather than rectangular patch of white on tail feathers, etc. 



Locality. 



When 

 Collected. 



Received from 



Collected by- 



San Jose, C. R. 



[C. H. 

 Rancho Redondo, 



Ang 

 Aug, 



Dr. A. V. Frantziua. 

 J. Carmiol. 



6, '64. 

 i?, '64. 



PHABNOPEPLA, Sclatee. 

 Phainopepla, Sclatek, P. Z. S. 1858, 543. (Type Ptilogonys nitens, Sw.) 



Plumage rather compact: in the male glossy. Head with a narrow elongated 

 occipital crest. Wings pointed, reaching about to middle of tail. Spurious 

 primary large, broad; more 

 than half second, which is 

 about equal to seconda- 

 ries ; 6th quill longest ; 

 5th, 4th, and then 3d suc- 

 cessively shorter ; the lat- 

 ter rather shorter than 

 7th ; end of quills not 

 attenuated nor pointed. 

 Tail longer than wings ; 

 somewhat fan - shaped ; 

 rounded at end ; not 

 emarginated ; the feathers 

 very broad, and widening 

 behind. 



Bill not very wide ; nos- 

 trils with overhanging 

 membrane ; frontal feath- 

 ers bristled, and reaching 

 to hinder edge of nostril ; riotal bristles extending to anterior edge ; both tips 

 of bill notched. Tarsi about equal to middle toe and claw, or a little longer ; 

 distinctly scutellate anteriorly ; one or two indistinct divisions on outer side 



PJiaenopepla nitena, Sclatek. (Arizona.) 



