LONG-BILLED GRAKLE. 467 



a little bent: irides dusky: nostrils placed in a 

 hollow almost in the middle of the bill, and not 

 as in most of the Grakles, at the base: they are 

 covered with a smooth black membrane: aboye 

 the angles of the mouth are two black bristles, and 

 a smaller ferruginous one behind them: tongue 

 plain, and deeply bifid at the tip, with lacerated 

 edges: head and neck black: back brown, inclin- 

 ing to ferruginous towards the rump: beneath, 

 from throat to vent, the plumage is of a dingy 

 yellow, the sides under the wings traversed by 

 black lines: on each side the neck is a naked 

 wrinkled longitudinal band or stripe, nearly covered 

 by the adjacent feathers: the wings are of a dusky 

 black colour, the shoulders inclining to brown: all 

 the greater quill-feathers are white at the base, 

 causing the appearance of an oblique white bar 

 on each wing when closed: the tail is cuneated 

 ^and black, tipped obliquely at the end with white, 

 the exterior feather being black for only about a 

 third of its length from the base: the legs are 

 strong and black. This species is a native of Sooth 

 America. 



