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at lower end. Claws short, mucli curved. Inner toe cleft nearly to base ; 

 basal joint of outer adherent. Outer toe a little longer than inner, reaching 

 a little beyond base of middle claw. , 



This genus differs from Myiadestes in scutellate tarsi, smaller feet, 

 more curved claws, crest, tail, etc. Its relationships to Ptilogonys 

 are closer, but the crest is narrow and pointed ; the wing less gradu- 

 ated ; the first primary much larger ; the tail more rounded ; the 

 feathers much broader. The bill is much narrower and weaker. 

 The feet are very similar ; the toes rather more cleft, though less 

 than in Myiadestes. 



PUsenopepla nitens. 



PtiUorjonys nitens, Sw. An. in Menag. 1838, 285. — BoN. Consp. 1850, 

 335.— Heekmann, Jour. A. N. Sc. Phila. II, 1853, 263.— Cassin, 

 111. Birds Texas, etc. 1854, 169, pi. xxix. — Cichlopsis nitens, Baikd, 

 Birds N. Am. 1858, 320, 923. — Phaiiiopepla nitens, Sclater, P. Z. S. 

 1858, 543 ; 1864, 173 (City of Mexico). 



"Lc'plurus galeaius, Less." 



I'Tah. Mountainous portions of western and middle provinces of United 

 States, and south to Orizaba ; Cape St. Lucas. 



(No. 8,275, %.) Tail broad, almost fan-shaped; graduated slightly; not 

 at all eniarginate, and longer than wing. First quill broad, slightly falcate, 

 scarcely attenuated ; more than half the 2d, which about equals the 10th ; 

 6th longest ; 3d equal to 7th. Feathers on nape rather full, with a lengthened, 

 pointed, narrow occipital crest. 



Male (No. 8,275) entirely glossy greenish-black; the inner webs of all the 

 primary quills with a large, lengthened patch of white, which does not reach 

 the inner margin ; their outer webs very narrowly edged with ashy, as are also 

 lateral tail feathers externally. 



Female (No. 8,274) brownish-ash, paler below ; the white of Inner webs 

 of quills obsolete ; the greater coverts and quills edged externally with 

 whitish, the anal and crissal feathers edged and tipped with the same ; the 

 outer tail feather with narrow edge of white externally towards end. 



Immature birds show every gradation of color between the two extremes 

 described above. 



(No. 8,275, %.) Total length, 7.60; wing, 3.80 ; tail, 4.35 ; difference of 10th 

 and longest primary, .54 ; exposed portion of 1st primary, 1.20, of 2d, 2.20, of 

 longest (6th) (measured from exposed base of 1st primary), 2.80; length of 

 bill from forehead, .46, from nostril, .31, along gape, .66 ; tarsus, .70 ; middle 

 toe and claw, .66, claw alone, .20 ; hind toe and claw, .44, claw alone, .20. 



