. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. r,8G NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. piivpose of identification, sliould eitlier species present itself, we give diagnoses in the accompanying foot-note.^ Genus CONURUS, Kuhl. CiDitu'iis, Kflll., C.';. I'sittiic. 1, Ibao. — In. Nova Acta K. L. C. Acad. X, 1830. Gks. Ciiau. Tail long, conical, and pointed ; liill stout; cheeks featlici'cd, but in some species leaving a naivcd ring mnnd the eye; cere I'euthcied to the base of the bill. The ])rcceding diagnosis, though not very full, will serve
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. r,8G NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. piivpose of identification, sliould eitlier species present itself, we give diagnoses in the accompanying foot-note.^ Genus CONURUS, Kuhl. CiDitu'iis, Kflll., C.';. I'sittiic. 1, Ibao. — In. Nova Acta K. L. C. Acad. X, 1830. Gks. Ciiau. Tail long, conical, and pointed ; liill stout; cheeks featlici'cd, but in some species leaving a naivcd ring mnnd the eye; cere I'euthcied to the base of the bill. The ])rcceding diagnosis, though not very full, will serve to indicate the essential chaiacteristics of the genus among tlie Middle American forms. Cnmtrtis rnrtiliii/nxis. with long pointed tails, the most ])rominent feature consisting in the densely feathered, not naked, cheeks. Ikit one species helongs to the United States, ' A. Tail long<'r than tin' wings ; loics and checks inikcd ; the latter with narrow lines of .small I'ciiihi-is. S. militaris. firci'u : foivln-ad reel ; pristcrioi' ]iwti(in (if Ipaik, njipcr and under tail-cnvcits with ipiills and tip of tail, sky-lilne ; under side of tail dirty orange- yellow. Wing, U.(Mt : middl,. tail-feathers, l.''..no ; tarsus, I/al). North- western Mexico to liolivia. .'fynonyniy : Puii/iims nii/i/nn'-i. Link. S. X. 1707, 139. Sitlacc militaris, FiNsc 11, Die Papageien, 1, 18(17, It'./O. B« Tail aliont e(|ual to the wings ; lores and checks feathered. S. pachyrbyncha. (!reen ; the forehead, edge of wings, and the tihiiB red ; greater under wing-coverts yellow. Wing, to ; middle tail-feather, Ifcih. Southern Mexico (.lalapa and Anf;angueo), given jnolmhly erroneously from the Rio Orande of Texas. Synonymy: Mntrncrrcus ji<iehiirh}nichus, Sw. Syn. Eirds Jfex. in Philos. Mag. T, 1S27, 4.'i9, No. 70. Itlinnchnpni/la paclii/r/ii/iiclia, Tahleau des , I{(?v. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, 140. Sil/acc pdrhjirhynclM, , Die Papa';eien, 1, 18(17,
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