. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. ICTERII)^ âTIIK ORIOLES. 221 Tar. agliii^ugi Daihd. FLOBIDA Qiiiseahm hfirilim, , ninls N. Am. , .'i.'id, pi. xxxii (not of (ill/till/!, liAiitn, Am. Jour. Sii. lS{i(i, 81. â C', I'r. A. N. S. lS()(i, 14. - IJinn- WAY, I'r. A. \. S. KSdO, 135. Q. imrpui-ius, , 1!. K. l-'Ia. 291. F>p. CiiAn. Lfii}:ili, KUIO; win':,'i.'iO ; tail, .'; culinen, ; Second iiiiil lliird .|uills tMiiiiil and loinjc.^t; Ihvt .shorter tliai
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. ICTERII)^ âTIIK ORIOLES. 221 Tar. agliii^ugi Daihd. FLOBIDA Qiiiseahm hfirilim, , ninls N. Am. , .'i.'id, pi. xxxii (not of (ill/till/!, liAiitn, Am. Jour. Sii. lS{i(i, 81. â C', I'r. A. N. S. lS()(i, 14. - IJinn- WAY, I'r. A. \. S. KSdO, 135. Q. imrpui-ius, , 1!. K. l-'Ia. 291. F>p. CiiAn. Lfii}:ili, KUIO; win':,'i.'iO ; tail, .'; culinen, ; Second iiiiil lliird .|uills tMiiiiil and loinjc.^t; Ihvt .shorter tliaii loiirth ; projeelion of | licyond sceondaries, ; jrraduation of tail, liill very .^lender and I'loiijrated, the lip of iipjier iiiandiliie abruptly deeiirvod; eomiuis- sure VL-ry ref;tdar. ^[('tallic tints very ilark. Head .ind nock .ill lound Avell denned violucoous .stc'cl-bluo, the head hhiisli, the neek more purplish and with a bronzy ca!.;l in front; body miiform ^'"'â - n^'a-iw. soft, dull, bronzy .scarcely lustrous; wings, npper , and tail blackish steel-blue, the wing-covcrls tipped with vivid violet-bronze; bell}' and glossed with blue. TIab. South Florida. race is (Hiito. well nmrked, though it grades insensibly into tlie vav. pttrimrciifi. Tt (lifters from both tliat and ameus in mutdi smaller size, with nutre slender and more decurved bill. The arraiinement of the colors is much as in tlie larger western species, wliile the tints are most like those of the eastern. All the colors are, how- ever, darker, but at the same time softer thivn in either of the others. Tn form this sjtecies approaches nearest the western, agreeing with it in the primaries, slender bill, and more graduated tiul, and, indeed, its relations in every respect aj)pear to be with this rather than the eastern. This race was lirst described from specimens collected at Key Biscayne by Mr. Wurdemann, in April, 18')?,
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