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Length 5 and 1-8 inches: alar extent 7. The head rusty-brown. 

 Throat black. Feathers of the back brown, tipped with olive. Plu- 

 mage of the breast and belly black, tipped with white. Sides under 

 the wings tinted with ferruginous. Wings dusky ; edges of the pri- 

 maries cinereous. Tail brown, edged with the same as the quills. 

 Legs black. The sexes nearly alike in plumage. 



BARTRAM'S GREENLET. 



(Vireo Bartramii, Swainson. North. Zool. ii. p. 235.) 

 Sp. Charact. — With the plumage of V. olivaceus, but brighter- 

 wings shorter, more rounded ; the 1st and Gth quills nearly equal, 

 the 3d and 4th longest. 



A specimen of this bird was procured by Mr. Douglass, 

 on the banks of the Columbia. According to Swainson it 

 also exists in Brazil and South Carolina. In V. olivaceus 

 the 1st quill is longer than the 5th : in the present the 1st is 

 shorter than the 5th. F. Bartramii is a very little shorter 

 than olivaceus. The latter being 5i inches in length, the 

 Bartramii 5 inches and tV^s ; bills of both, the same length. 

 The wing in olivaceus 3 inches -^ ; in the present 2 inches 

 ■Jths : the tarsus the same in both. The specific character 

 therefore seems to rest on the comparative length of the 

 quills : any difference in habits are yet unknown. 



LONG-BILLED GREENLET. 



(Vireo longirostris, Swainson, North. Zool. ii. p. 227. [in note.] 

 Edwards, p. 93. pi. 253.) 



Sp. Charact. — Plumage of V. olivaceus; the chin margined with 

 a black line ; bill lengthened ; wings short, when folded, not reach- 

 ing to half the length of the tail : the 1st quill shorter than the 4th. 

 This species, entirely tropical, is found to be the true West India 



bird, known from its note by the name of Whip- Tom-Kelly. The 



