STLYIID.E — POLIOPTILA. 



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inner. First primary about one third the longest ; secoml, equal to the seventh. Tail a 

 little longer than the wings, moderately graduated ; the feathers rounded. 



P. ceBTulea. 



The species all lead-color above ; white Ijencath, and to a greater or less extent on the 

 exterior of the tail, the rest of which is black. Size very small. 



P. ccerulea. 



There are nine other closely allied species, besides ours, found in tropi- 

 cal America, described in Professor Baird's " Eeview of American Birds." 



Polioptila ceerulea, Lixx^us. 



THE BLTTE-GRAY FLYCATCHEE. 



Molacilla carulea, LiNX.Eus, Syst. Nat. I. ITBrt, 43. — Musekapa cairulea, Wilson, Am. Orn. 

 II. 1810, 164; pi. xviii. f. 3. —Aid, Orn. Biog. I. 1831, 431 ; ]il. 84. — Nuttall, I. 

 1832, 297. — Culicivom cm-iikn, Boxap.irte, List, 1838. — Add., Birds Amer. I. 1840, 

 244 ; pi. 70. — Si/lvunia cterulea, Nuttall, Man. I. 2d ed. 1 840, 337. — Polloplila carulea, 

 SCLATER, Pro. Zool. Soc. Lund. 1853, II. — Baiku, P. R. Rep. IX. Birds, 380.— 

 Heermann, X. vi. 39. 



Sp. Cii.^R. Above, grayish-ldue. gradually becoming bright blue on the crown. A nar- 

 row frontal band of black extending backwards over the eye. Under parts and lores bin- 



