PASSERES — VIREONID/E — VIREO. 125 



(EXTRA-LIMITAL. ) 



V. bartrami. (Aud. B. of A. Vol. 4, pi. 242.) Yellowish ob've. Head deep grey margined with 



blackish, and beneath it yellowish white. First quill shorter than the fifth. Length, 4£ inches. 



Kentucky, New-Jersey. 

 V. longirostris. (Richardson. F. B. A. Vol. 2, p. 237.) Chin margined by a black line. Bill 



elongated. Wings short, not reaching to half the length of the tail: first quill shorter than the 



fourth. Length, 51 inches. Antilles. 

 V. belli. (Aud. B. of A. Vol. 7, p. 333, pi. 485.) Greyish olive. Sides and beneath tinged with 



yellow. Head and shoulders tinged with grey. Wings and tail brown, edged with yellowish. 



Third quill longest. Length, 4-6. Upper Missouri. 



GENUS ICTERIA. Vieillot. 



Bill stout, elongated, convex, curved, entire, with small divergent bristles at the base. Man- 

 dibles subequal ; the edges somewhat bent inwards. Nostrils half closed by an arched 

 membrane. Tongue cartilaginous, bristly at the tip. Inner toe free. Wings rounded : 

 third and fourth primaries longest ; the first scarcely longer than the sixth. 



Obs. This is an exclusively American genus, thus far comprising but one species. The 

 name is perhaps objectionable on account of its resemblance to Icterus ; but as the species 

 on which it was founded has been figured already in five different genera, and as it has been 

 generally received by modern ornithologists, it will not in all probability be further disturbed. 

 Its place in the systems has also been exceedingly doubtful, and often changed. In the most 

 recent systems, it connects the Flycatchers with the Greenlets, but it also forms the passage 

 between Merula and Vireo. Its most natural position would seem to be in the abnormal 

 group of Conirostres, comprising Pyrrhtjla, Loxia, &c. 



