anilia (anilia)

[ aniline. are several species, two of them inhabiting the United States. The black ani, Crotophaga ani , is about a foot long, entirely black, with violet, steel-blue, and bronze reanilic (a-nil'ik), a. [ flections; the iris is brown; the feathers of the head and neck are lanceolate; the crest of the bill is smooth or with few wrinkles; and the culmen is regularly curved. It is called in the West Indies the black witch and savanna blackbird, and is known to the French of Cayenne as bout de-setun. It occurs from Florida southward. Another species, C. sulcirostris, the groove-billed ani, is found in tropical America and northward to Texas. Its bill has three distinct grooves, parallel with the curved culmen. All are gregarious in habit, and nest in bushes, several individuals sometimes using one large nest in common; they lay plain greenish eggs, covered with a white chalky substance. See Crotophaga.