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Ventral aspect. White with an inclination to pale yellow on 

 the sides ; wing and tail coverts white tinged with yellow. 



2nd primary longest. Length 5f inches ; alar breadth 8 inches. 

 V. gilvus. Warbling Greenlet. 

 Muscicapa melodia of Wilson ! 

 M, gilva of Viellot ! 

 Vireo gilvus, Viel.! Buon.! Baird ! 

 D.c. " Length 5 inches ; above pale olive green much mixed 

 with ash on the neck and shoulders ; line over the eye and lower 

 parts whitish ; near the breast and sides, and under the wings 

 tinged with pale greenish-yellow ; wings greyish-brown, edged 

 with pale olive green inclining to grey ; tail similarly edged and 

 slightly forked ; legs, feet and bill above lead colour ; the lower 

 mandible pale flesh colour; iris dark hazel. The sexes nearly 

 alike." (Nuttall). 



Genus Sylvia. 

 Gen. char. Bill subulate, straight, slender, deeper than broad 

 at the base ; upper mandible frequently notched ; lower one 

 straight ; nostrils lateral, suboval ; tarsus longer than the middle 

 toe ; bastard wing short or wanting ; 2nd and 3rd primaries usu- 

 ally longest and subequal ; scapulars and wing coverts short. 



S. citrinella. Summer Warbler. — Yellow-bird. 

 Dendroica cestiva. Baird! 

 V.S.P. Bill bluish; tarsi and feet pale; claws horn colour; 

 irides hazel ; eggs 4, dull white mottled with brown. 



Dorsal aspect. Crown gamboge yellow ; nape of neck, inter- 

 scapulary region, and rump olivaceous green ; wing coverts, pri- 

 maries, secondaries, and tail clove brown edged with yellow. The 

 two central tail feathers have a minute yellow edging. The others 

 nearly altogether yellow except a clove brown streak along each 

 side of the shafts, which widens as it approaches the tips. 



Ventral aspect. Light gamboge yellow streaked with rufous 

 orange. 



Bastard wing wanting ; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd primaries subequal, 

 if anything the second longest. Length 5 J inches ; alar breadth 

 7^ inches. One of our most common songsters. 

 S. varia. Black and White Warbler. 

 Certhia maculata of Wilson ! 

 Mniotilla varia. Baird ! 

 v.s.p. Bill black above, pale below ; upper mandible slightly 



