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Show 438 APP.ENDIX. Bill large, compressed from the base, entire, t~e edges angular, hardly bent in; upper mandible c~rved ft:om the ~addle~ longert~an the lower, with an osseous prommence m the m1ddle; tongue b1fid at tip• nostrils half closed by a membrane. Q. ~a}or, Bonap. I, p. iv, f. l and 2 ( Gracula barrita of authors, Jackdaw of the south). Black, with a blue gloss mixed with purple; head and neck purple; iris yellow. Female dusky; back, wings and tail with a slight bluish gloss; head and neck dark brown; throat, breast and belly, brown. Q. versicolor, Vieill. Wils. III, p. xxi, f. iv ( Grac. quiscula of au. thors). Black, with a bluish gloss, mixed with purple; head and neck with a purple gloss; iris yellow. Female more. dusky. Both these species are similar in their manners, are greganous, and com· mit gt·eat devastation in fields of grain. Q. ferrugineus, Bonap. Wils. III, p. xxi, f. 3 ( Grac. ferruginea of authors). Black, ~itb feathers more or less tipped wi~h ferruginous. N.B. Previous to the Jabours of M. C. Bonaparte, these three birds were not understooq. It is needless to occupy any space in commenting on the errors that have hitherto existed respecting them. ., , ' •. . i I . , . XXIV. .t . r Add, Tot. macularius, Temm. Wils. VIII, p. lix, f. 1. The Ph~· laropus frenatus alluded to by our author in note (3) is ~ot figure~ m Wilson, IX, p. lxiii, f. 3. The bird there represented IS the Lob1pes Wilsonii of Sabine. XXV. Here should come the genus ARAMUS, Vicill. characterized as follows.-Bill much longer than the head, cleft beneath the eyes, compressed, straight, curved, and somewhat turg1'd at tt·p ; ~p per mandible slightly ful·rowed, the lower turgid towards the mtddlc, angular beneath, acute; nostrils in witle orifices, linear, pervious; lares naked; feet long; toes divided to their base, hind toe long. . .llr. scolopaceu1, Vieill. Brown glossed with green; feathers.longl· tudinally white in the middle; rump, quill, and tail feathers tmma· culate. Inhabits Georgia and FJorida, Bonap. Syn. P· 308. j.r, , AP.PENIHX, 439 XXVI. '~he Pel. sula, L., The Brown Booby, Enl. 973, is the Sula julca, Bnss. XXVII. Closely allied to the genus PLoTus is the HELIORNis of Vieillot which chiefly differs from it in having a shorter and slenderer bill the edges of which are entire, not denticulate. But two species ar; known, the H. surinamensis, Enl. 893. Brown, beneath whitish; sides of the nec_k striped with black and white; bill and feet dusky, the latter semi-palmate and barred with black. The other is the H. aenegalensis, Vieill. Gal. 280. Brown, beneath white; sides of the neck and back speckled with black; bill and feet red; toes connected only at the base; tail cuneiform. |