. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. It "â f I. 174 GHKAT CROW BLACKniRD. to designate by their Qracula harita ; but after a careful review of the short and unessential indications, respective synonymes, and habitat given by different writers, we feel assured tliat they have not referred to one and the same species. Thus, the barlta of Linnd is a species not found in the United States, but common in tlic West Indies, caHcd lete- ru8 niger by Brisson, and afterwards Oriohis niger by Gmelin and Latham: the harita of L
. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. It "â f I. 174 GHKAT CROW BLACKniRD. to designate by their Qracula harita ; but after a careful review of the short and unessential indications, respective synonymes, and habitat given by different writers, we feel assured tliat they have not referred to one and the same species. Thus, the barlta of Linnd is a species not found in the United States, but common in tlic West Indies, caHcd lete- ru8 niger by Brisson, and afterwards Oriohis niger by Gmelin and Latham: the harita of Latham, his Boat-tailed Grakle, is evidently the «amc witli the rjuiscala :* Gmelin's harita is taken partly from that of Liiind, and partly from tlic Boat-tailed Grakle of Latham, being com- pounded from both species: we shall not be at the trouble of decipher- ing the errors of subsequent compilers. Ornithologists are all at variance, as to the classification of these spe- cies. Linnd and Latham improperly referred them to Gracula ; Dau- (lin, with no better reason, placed them under Stnrnus; Temminck considers them as letcri, Cuvior as Cassiei, and Vieillot has forinetl a new genus for tlieir reception. I have no hesitation in agreeing Viith the latter author, and adopt his name of Quisrahis; but 1 add to the genus, as constituted by him, the Gracula ferrugincn, which he regarded as a I'enduh'nus, and which other nrithors have arranged in several different genera, making of it a profusion of nominal species. Wilson judiciously included tliat species in the same genus with tliose above mentioned, although other authors had placed it in Turdun, Oriolus, &c. The genus Quiscalug is peculiar to America, and is comjxised of four well ascertained species, tliree of which are found in the United Stales: these are, Quis/^aluft major, f versicolor, and ferrugincus; tho fourth, Quisralus haritun, inhabits the West Indies, and probably South America. The species of tiiis gtnnis a
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