154. ' [Feb. 



2. Vireo Vigorsii, (Aud.) Richardson, Report on N. A. Zoology to Brit. Assoc. 

 for the Adv. of Science, (in Sixth Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1837, p. 172.) 



Sylvia Vigorsii. Aud. Orn. Biog. 1 p. 103, pi. 30. 



Ohs. Audubon's figure has a Vireo-like look, and ought to be remembered. 

 In his Synopsis, p. 55, he places this name as a synonyme for Sylvicola pinus, 

 (Lath.) 



3. Vireosylva is the orthography of M. Bonaparte in Geog. and Comp. List, 

 p. 26, but in Conspectus Avium, p. 329, he makes it Vireosylvia, the former 

 being apparently a typographical error. It is a very natural and easily defined 

 genus, and was first pointed out by this deservedly celebrated naturalist in the 

 edition of the work cited which was published in 1838. In Erichson's Archiv^ 



>ty'X,-^^-k^ x'i'- P- 321, (1847,) Mr. Cabani^necessarily proposes the name Phyllomanes as a 

 substitute. 



Descriptions of 7iew species of birds of the genera Galbida and Bueco, Briss., 

 specimens of which are in the collection of the Academy of Natural Scie?ices of 

 PIi iladelphia . 



By John Cassin. 



1. Galbida cyanicollis, nobis. 



Form. Not essentially different from that of other short-tailed species. Rather 

 stout, space from the bill around the eye bare and conspicuous, middle tail 

 feathers but slightly longest. 



Dimensions, Total length of skin from top of bill to end of tail 7^ inches, 

 wing 3 and 1-lOth, tail 3 inches. 



Colours. Head above blue with golden olive reflections, the same color, blue, 

 extends from the base of the bill upon the neck beneath the bare space around 

 the eye, bordering (upon the neck only) the deep reddish brown of the entire 

 under surface of the body. Entire plumage above and two middle tail feathers 

 golden-green, very brilliant, and inclining to red in some lights. Outer tail 

 feathers reddish brown, slightly edged externally with golden-green, quills black, 

 primaries narrowly and secondaries broadly edged on their inner webs with 

 brown, rather paler than that of the body beneath. A trace of a green collar 

 on the neck in front. 



Tip of upper mandible black, basal portion of upper, whole of under mandible 

 (space around the eye and feet ?) yellow. 



Hab. Para, Brazil. 



Obs. This species is related to G. chalcocephala, Deville, and G. albirostris. 

 Lath. I am acquainted with no other species in which the head and neck are 

 blue as above described. Several specimens are in the collection, all of which 

 are from Para. 



2. Bncco Ordii, nobis. 



Form. Generally short and robust, feathers of the head but little elongated, 

 wings and tail short. A strict congener of B. macrorhynchus and pectoralis. 



Dimensions. Total length of skin from tip of bill to end of tail ll inches, 

 wing 3 and 3-lOths, tail 2 and 8-lOth inches. 



Colors. Tail with a central transverse white bar. Breast with a narrow band 

 of black, immediately succeeded by another much wider of dark chesnut-brown. 



