3 14 LAXIID^. 



brownish grey, with whitish shafts to the feathers ; underparts of 

 the body dull yellow, palest on the fore neck and throat ; under 

 wing-coverts and inner margin of remiges j^ellowish white ; bill 

 blackish brown ; feet light brown in the skin. Culmen <>6 inch, 

 wing 2-9, tail 2-3, tarsus 0"S2. 

 Hab. Jamaica. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Jamaica, April 28, 18-59. P. L. Sclater, Esq. [P.]. 



27. VIREOLANIUS. r^ „ 



Type. 

 Vireolanius, Du Bus, Esqutsses Ormth. pi. 26 (1850) ; 



Bonap. Con»p. Av. i. p. 330 V. melitophrys. 



Head of Vireolanius melitophrys. 



The birds of this group are only subgenerically distinct from 

 Cyclorhis. Culmen a little less curved and bill not so high. Tail 

 slightly rounded, and a little shorter than wing. Princii^al colours 

 green, yellow, blue, and white. 



Range. South America. 



Key to the Sjiecies. 



a. Underparts white ; chest and sides chestnut .... tnelitophri/s, p. 314. 



b. Underparts yellow and green. 



«'. Crown of head grey lencotis, p. 315. 



b' . Crown of head blue. 



o''. ^Mth a yellow superciliav}' stripe eximius, p. 316. 



b" . No stripe on sides of head pulchellus, p. 315. 



1. Vireolanius melitophrys. 



Lanius chrysophrys, Licht. Mus. Berol. {teste Scl.). 



Vireolanius melitophrys, Bp. C. A. i. p. 330 (ex Du Bits, Esquisses 



Ornithol. pi. 26) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 213, 1859, p. 363 ; Scl. ^ 



Sak: Ibis, 1860, p. 31 ; Baird, Mev. Am. B. p. 396 ; Scl. Cat. A7n. 



B. p. 45; Grmj, Hand-l. B. i. p. 382, no. 5780; Scl. df Salv. 



Exotic Ornith. pi. 7 ; iid. Komencl. p. 13 ; Salv. Ibis, 1878, p. 443 ; 



Salv. ^- Godm., Biul. Centr.-Amer., Aves, p. 209 (1883).^ 



Crowu of head, nape, and hind neck light grey ; a broad stripe 

 from the nostrils over the eye and sides of the occiput orange-}-el- 

 low ; a stripe of black extending through the eye, and a second one 

 along the sides of the throat ; cheeks, throat, fore neck, breast, and 

 abdomen pure white ; across the chest a narrow band of maroon- 

 red ; sides of breast and flanks washed with the same colour ; under 

 wing-coverts and inner margin of remiges pale yellow; mantle, 

 back, and outer webs of wings and tail uniform rich olive-green ; 



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