. Animals in menageries. at the tip; lower with oblique grooves at the , 64. f. 2. Inhabits Brazil, {fig. 54. a) Mus. Nost. Total length 9 inches ; bill, gape f^; wings 5 ; tail, be-yond, 2; base 4; tarsus 1-y^; hind toe and claw ^^. Thisseems to be the Icterus vnicolor of Lich. Berlin Cat. 70. Agelaius pustulatus. Entirely glossy black. Feathers of the head lanceolate :lores and base of the under mandible naked and warted. Inhabits the plains in the interior of Bahia^ Brazil.{fig. 54. h) Mus. Nost. 71. Leistes fcBrown: body beneath, lesser wing covers^ and rump^ 304 TWO C
. Animals in menageries. at the tip; lower with oblique grooves at the , 64. f. 2. Inhabits Brazil, {fig. 54. a) Mus. Nost. Total length 9 inches ; bill, gape f^; wings 5 ; tail, be-yond, 2; base 4; tarsus 1-y^; hind toe and claw ^^. Thisseems to be the Icterus vnicolor of Lich. Berlin Cat. 70. Agelaius pustulatus. Entirely glossy black. Feathers of the head lanceolate :lores and base of the under mandible naked and warted. Inhabits the plains in the interior of Bahia^ Brazil.{fig. 54. h) Mus. Nost. 71. Leistes fcBrown: body beneath, lesser wing covers^ and rump^ 304 TWO CENTENARIES AND A QUARTER yellow. Bill lengthened; the commissure sinuated_, andthe tip slightly depressed, (^fig. 55. «)Inhabits Brazil. The Zanth. gasquet. and L. Suchii of authors. Total length10 inches; bill, gape If^; front 1^g ; wings nearly 5; tailbeyond 2^: base 4|; tarsus l^^; hind toe and claw 1. 72. Leistes hremrostris. Brown : body beneath, lesser wing covers, and rump,yellow. Bill short; culmen convex; the tip of the uppermandible slightly bent over the lower, {fig. 55. c) Inhabits Brazil. The Oriolus bicolor of the Paris Museum. Rather smallerthan the next, particularly in the length of the bill, which onlymeasures one inch from the gape : neither the culmen nor the tipis depressed or flattened: can it possibly be a young bird ofthe last ? 73. Leistes tenuirostris. Olive brown : body beneath, and iirst row of thelesser wing covers, yellow : rump brown. Bill slender;the commissure not sinuated; the tip consider
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