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U. S. P. R. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS-ZOOLOGY—GENERAL REPORT. 
This genus has a much narrower and more depressed bill than Ptilogonys. The feet are 
similar, but'with more curved claws, and with no feathers on the upper part of the tarsus. The 
first quill is much larger ; indeed it can scarcely be called spurious ; the fourth, fifth, and sixth 
are successively a little longer than the third ; the outer primaries not acuminate. The tail is 
much broader, widening to the tip ; it is rounded, or graduated, instead of forked. The head has 
a crest of narrow linear feathers, instead of a short, broad, and full one. 
CICHLOPSIS NITENS, Baird. 
Ptilogonys nitens, Swainson, Anim. in Menag. 2£ Cent. 1838, 285.— Bonap. Consp. 1850, 335_ Heermann, J. A. N 
Sc. II, Jan. 1853, 263.— Cassin, Ulust. I, 1854, 169 ; pi. xxix. 
Lepturus galeatus, Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1849, 4 . 
“ Hypothymys nitens, Lafr. ” 
Sp. Ch. —Head with an elongated occipital crest. Exposed portion of spurious quill about half the length of the second, 
which equals the secondaries ; sixth quill longest. Tail graduated. Male throughout of a uniform lustrous black, glossed with 
green. Inner webs of the primaries white, except at the base, tips, and margins. Female, ash color, paler beneath ; the quills, 
wing, and lower tail coverts and outer tail feathers edged with whitish ; rest of tail feathers blackish. Length of male, 7.75 ; 
wing, 3.90 ; tail, 4.30. 
Ilab .—Valley of Gila and southern Colorado to upper Rio Grande ; west to Fort Tejon ; east to Coahuila, Mexico. 
There is some difference in the size of specimens, one from the Colorado desert being con¬ 
siderably smaller than 3964 from Coahuila. The female has the crest rather less conspicuous 
than the male. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When collected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Wing. 
Fort Tejon, Cal ...... 
■J. X. DeVesey_ 
8273 
9 
Fort Yuma._ 
Nov. 
25. 
Major Emory.... 
Lt. "Whipple_ 
.do. 
27 
A. Schott_ 
8281 
8282 
Camp 120 N, Mexico. 
Camp 113 N. Mexico. 
Fort Yuma_ 
Feb. 
Feb. 
12, 1854 
5, 1854 
96 
69 
Kenn. and Moll.. 
7.00 
11.00 
5.00 
8279 
A. Schott_ 
8274 
O 
Colorado desert__ 
Dr. Heermann .. 
8275 
<? 
.do. 
4591 
Gila river, N. M_ 
Major Emory.... 
27 
A. Schott_ 
8280 
4592 
4564 
8276 
3964 
Los Nogales, Mex.... 
Dr. Kenner]y ... 
9 
Gila river, N. M_ 
22 
A. Schott_ 
Cook’s well, Cal_ 
21 
Mimbres to Rio Grande 
Dr. Henry_ 
Coahuila, Mex.__ _ _ 
Lt. Couch__ 
MYIADESTES, Swainson. 
J\Iyiadestcs, Swainson, Naturalist’s Library. Flycatchers, 1838. Type Mnscicapa armillata, Vieill. 
Ch. —Head not crested. Bill rather narrower than the length of the culmen ; much depressed ; somewhat attenuated at 
the end ; lateral outline rather concave. Tarsi without feathers above or scutellae ; shorter than the middle toe. Hind toe 
rather shorter than the outer lateral toe, which barely reaches the base of the middle claw. Tail and wings very long; the 
former shorter, quite deeply forked, but the outer lateral feather abruptly graduated, and a little longer than the innermost; 
the feathers all broad at the base, and tapering to the tip. Spurious primary nearly one-fourth the longest, (third ;) the second 
a quarter of an inch less than the longest. 
