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54 (Thompson R., below Ashcroft, British Columbia). — Dawson, Auk, xiv, 

 1897, 179 (Olianogan Co , Washington).— Brooks, Auk, xvii, 1900, 107 

 (Sumas, British Columbia, May 26). — Bruner, Proc. Nebr. Orn. Un., '2d ann. 

 meet., 1901, 57 (Sioux Co., n. w. Nebraska, lireeding). 



I[deria] •!i[i>e)j.s] longirnuda CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 312. 



7[r7ri'ia] rirms lom/imuda Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 527. 



[Ideria viridis.l Subsp. a. Idrria longicaudd Siiarpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 

 1885, 375, part only? (specimens from San Pedro, Honduras, and Ciuatemalan 

 localities very doubtfully referable to this form!). 



Ide.rki vireii.i (not Turdm rlrentt Linnaeus) Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 

 1872, 1M5 (Fort Hays, w. Kansas), 145 (Cheyenne, Wyoming), 166 (Ogden, 

 Utah), 175; Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1874, 52 (Missouri, Yellowstone, 

 and Musselshell rivers, etc., North Dakota and Montana). — Allen and 

 Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, 1883, 159 (Colorado Springs, Colorado, 

 after May lo). 



Genus GRANATELLUS Bonaparte. 



Granalcllvx Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 312 (ex "Du Bus, Esq. Orn., sub. 

 tab. 24") (Type, <J. venustus Bonaparte.) 



Medium-sized or rather .small stout-billed Mniotiltidse with the outer- 

 most (ninth) primary shorter than innermost (first); the tail nearlj- 

 equal to or longer than wing; bill much shorter than head, with cul- 

 men .strongly curved commissure distinctly arched, and mandible 

 deeper than maxilla; under parts partly red, upper parts gray or bluish. 



Bill much shorter than head, slightly or moderately compressed, 

 with mandible deeper than maxilla; culmen strongly curved, gonys 

 slightly curved or nearly straight; maxillary tomium distinctly con- 

 cave, without subterminal notch; mandibular tomium distinctly convex, 

 except toward tip. Nostril small, circular, in anterior portion of nasal 

 fossfe, surrounded by membrane, but this verj- narrow anteriorly 

 (forming a slender marginal ring), that aljove the nostril scarcely 

 forming an " operculum.'' Rictal bristles obvious but minute. A^'ing 

 moderate, excessivel}- rounded (seventh to fifth primaries longest, 

 eighth shorter than fourth, and ninth shorter than first); wing- tip 

 not longer than exposed culmen. Tail slightly shorter than wing (in 

 G salkei) to much longer {G. francescai)^ rounded, the rectrices broad 

 and rounded at tips. Tarsus very nearly one-third as long as wing, 

 its scutella fairly distinct (sometimes obsolete or fused on outer side); 

 middle toe, with claw, decidedly shorter than tarsus; basal phalanx of 

 middle toe united for nearly if not quite its entire length to outer toe, 

 for rather more than half its length to inner toe. 



Coloration. — Under parts partly red; adult males bluish gray above, 

 with tail and sides of pileum black; under parts white laterally, pink- 

 ish red medially; throat white or bluish gray; a broad supra-auricular 

 stripe and, in some species, lateral rectrices partly white. 



Nidification . — U nknown . 



