. Review of American birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Instution. [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. 1 i * If ! : 1 ' 1 t r* ',â *'â i, r â i ' â. m REVIEW OF AMERrCAN BIRDS. [part I. lat quill rAtlier more than half the 2d. Tail rather broad, graduated; the lateral feather .60 shorter than the central; the feathers rather soft and broader than usual on the outer webs. Color gloHsy black; winga and tail with a greenish lustre; rest of bodj glossed with steel blue. Bih and legs black. Length, ; wing, ; tall, ; gape, .87; tarsus, ; middle toe and claw, .92. Bmlth- â ouiau No.
. Review of American birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Instution. [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. 1 i * If ! : 1 ' 1 t r* ',â *'â i, r â i ' â. m REVIEW OF AMERrCAN BIRDS. [part I. lat quill rAtlier more than half the 2d. Tail rather broad, graduated; the lateral feather .60 shorter than the central; the feathers rather soft and broader than usual on the outer webs. Color gloHsy black; winga and tail with a greenish lustre; rest of bodj glossed with steel blue. Bih and legs black. Length, ; wing, ; tall, ; gape, .87; tarsus, ; middle toe and claw, .92. Bmlth- â ouiau No. Collec- tor's No. Sex nod Locality. When Collected. Received rrom Collected by 30,652 33 .. i Half Moon Koy, Br. 1 [HoiiJuraH. May 10, '62. O. Salvia. Halviu k Godman. MELANOTIS, Bonap. Melanotis, Bonap. Conspectus, 1,1850, 276. (Type Orpheus caerulfscens, Sw.) Bill elongated, rather slender, compressed, as long as the head. Commissure nearly straight to the decurved, notched tip. Rictal feathers moderate, reaching to the nostrils. Wings decidedly shorter than the tail; 4th and .'')th quills longest; 6th and 7th a little shorter than the 3d ; 2d shorter than the secondaries ; nearly as much shorter than the 4th as it is longer than the 1st; Ist quill two-thirds the 2d, half as long as the longest. Tail long, broad, and graduated; the ft^athers soft, with outer webs unusually broad, as in Mtlanoptila; lateral feathers less than the central. rather weak, but the tarsus longer than middle toe; distinctly scutel- late on anterior half, with seven broad scutellse. Claws strong, and well curved. The type of the genus is the Orpheus ceerulescens of Swainson. The second assigned species, M. hypoleitcus, dififers somewhat in form. The bill is shorter and less attenuated ; the wing apparently- shorter and more concave; the legs and the claws are stouter, and the tarsus is but little longer than the middle toe and claw. Both species are slaty blue, with the side of the hea
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