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slightly ai?hy on sides of breast. Flanks and inside of wings showing a faint 

 trace of yellow, only appreciable on raising the wings. An obsolete line from 

 bill to eye, and a more distinct ring round the eye, white. No bands on the 

 wing, except a faint edging of whitish on the greater coverts ; the quills edged 

 internally with white. Bill and legs plumbeous. " Iris brown. Mouth livid, 

 bluish-white." (Coues.) 



Fresh specimen: Total length, 5.60; expanse of wings, 8.60. Prepared 

 specimen: Total length, 5.10; wing, 2.50; tail, 2.60, its graduation, .22; 

 difference of 10th and longest quills, .40 ; exposed portion of 1st primary, .85, 

 of 2d, 1.65, of longest (measured from exposed base of 1st primary), 1.95 ; 

 length of bill from forehead, .50, from nostril, .32, along gape, .61 ; depth of 

 bill, 18 ; tarsus, .72 ; middle toe and claw, .51, claw alone, .16 ; hind toe and 

 claw, .40, claw alone, .19. 



This species would at first sight be taken for a small specimen 

 of V. plumbea, the colors, character of bill, etc., being exactly simi- 

 lar, except that the white of lores and around eye is much less dis- 

 tinct, and there is only .one faint band on wing, instead of two 

 conspicuous ones ; the tail feathers, too, lack the distinct white 

 edgings. The much more rounded wing, and the first primary half 

 the second or more, will, however, readily distinguish them. The 

 form of the bird is very much that of V. jmsiUus, which it resembles 

 also in color. The outer quill is, however, longer, the biW deeper 

 and more compressed, the inner lateral toe considerably shorter, and 

 the size larger. The colors are purer, without the olive of the back 

 or the yellowish of the under parts ; the bill, too, is entirely dark 

 plumbeous, instead of ^rn color, whitish beneath. From V. jmllens 

 it is distinguished by smaller, darker bill ; longer tail and wing; one 

 wing band, not two, and purer colors. 



Vireo modestiis. 



Vireo modestus, Sclatee, P. Z. S. 1860, 462 (Jamaica) ; 1861, 72, pi. 

 xiv, fig. 1.— lis. Catal. 1861, 43, no. 259.— March, Pr. A. N. Sc. 

 1863, 294.— F. noveboracensis, Gosse, Birds Jam. 1847, 192 (not 

 of Gmelin), 



Hab. Jamaica. 



(No. 22,143, % .) The whole upper parts are of a dull olive green, with a 

 shade of brown, the sides of head and neck paler. The quills and tail feathers 

 are brown ; the 1st and 2d primaries very faintly edged with whitish, the 



