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thin, flag like leaves, intermixed with a little cotton. It seems large for 

 the bird; it measures in outside diameter 5 inches; height, 2^; depth 

 of cavity, 1| inches. There are three eggs of a dull white, sparingly 

 speckled with reddish-brown, except on the larger end, where the spots 

 are confluent; two measure in length .75 of an inch and .50 in breadth; 

 the other is .55 in breadth. 



11. Dendrocca plunibea, Lawr., Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. v. 1, p. 47. 

 There are no notes which apply to this species. 



12. Setophaga ruticilla (Liuu.). 



" Redstart, ' Chat'. Not common. 



" Length, 5 in. ; alar extent, 7i ; wing, 2J, <?." 



Fara. VIREONID^. 



13. Vireosylvia calidris var. dominicana, Lawr. 



" I think this bird is a summer visitor only, as I did not see it before 

 March 19, and then only one. It increased in numbers in April and 

 May; was abundant in the Indian Settlement. I send nest and eggs. 

 Its note makes it conspicuous. 



<' Length, $, 6J in.; alar extent, lOJ ; wing, 3.} ; tail, 2^\" 



" Local name, ' Chewick'. Iris hazel." 



Male. — Upper plumage olive-green, purer and brighter than in Y. 

 calidris ; cap of a clear ash, rather darker than that of var. harhatula ; 

 a distinct blackish line along the edge of the crown ; superciliary stripe 

 ashy- white; cheeks with a tinge of buff; lores and a stripe behind the 

 eye dusky : a blackish moustachial line along each side of the throat ; 

 the under plumage is grayish-white, purer on the upper part of the 

 throat and abdomen ; sides pale olive-green ; under wing-coverts yellow ; 

 crissum pure pale yellow ; the bill is large and darker than in its allies ; 

 the upper mandible is blackish horn-color, the under whitish horn-color. 



The female differs in no respects from the male. 



The only necessary direct comparison with any of the West Indian 

 or moustached form is with var. barbadense, Eidg. ; that and the pres- 

 ent bird only having a distinct dark line along the edge of the crown. 

 The type of barbadense was kindly sent me by Mr. Eidgway : it is 

 smaller than the Dominica species ; the plumage above is of a lighter 

 brownish-olive, the cap not so dark, the under parts of a pale yellowish 

 or creamy-white, and the bill of a fleshy-brown color ; in general color- 

 ing they are quite unlike. 



The nest (marked '' St. Marie, April 22, '77") is not the beautiful struc- 

 ture described by Dr. Brewer (N. Am. Birds, v. 1, p. 362) belonging to F. 

 calidris of Jamaica, and does not appear to have been pensile ; it is com- 

 posed of fine grasses, intermixed on the outside with a coarser kind of 

 a long, thin, ribbon-like form. There are but two eggs — perhaps not the 

 full complement ; they are of a dull white, rather closely spotted with 



