27. TIRE0LA.X1US. 315 



inner webs blackish, narrowly edged with white on the tips ; bill 

 blackish-brown ; feet flesh-colour. Culmen 0-7-0'8 inch, wiog 

 3-3-2, tail 2-7-2-8, tarsus U-9-1-U2. 

 Hah. Mexico and Guatemala. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Mexico. Purchased. 



c. Ad. St. Mexico. Purchased. 



d. Ad. sk. Coban, Guatemala. O. Salviu, Esq. [C.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Guatemala. O. Salvin and F. D. God- 



man, Esqrs. [P.]. 



2. Vireolanius leucotis. 



Malaconotus leucotis, Swains. An. in Menac/. p. 341 (1838). 

 Vireolanius icterophrj's, Bp. C. 11. xxxviii. p. 380 (1854) ; Baird, 



Rev. Am. B. i. p. 399; Sd. 4'- Salv. Kcot. OniithoL note to pi. 8; 



(jrraii, Hand-l. Jj. i. p. 382, no. 5783. 

 Vireolanius chlorogaster, Bj). C. JR. xxxviii. p. 381 ; Scl. Cat. Am. B. 



p. 4-5 ; Baird, Rev. Am. B. i. p. 399 ; Scl. ij- Salt). E.votic Ornith. 



uote to pi. 8 ; iid. Nomencl. p. 13 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 382, 



no. 5781. 

 " Vireolanius dubusi, Verr." Jide Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 382. 

 Vireolanius leucotis, Salv. Ibis, 1878, p. 443, pi. xi. ; id. ^ Godman, 



Ibis, ls82, p. 77. 



Crown of head and nape bluish grey ; stripe from nostrils, over 

 the eye and along the occiput, and subocular patch orange-yellow ; a 

 streak through the eye and part of the ear-coverts aud cheeks grey ; 

 rest of ear-coverts and of cheeks dull white ; mantle and back rich 

 green ; throat and fore neck orange-yellow ; rest of nnderparts 

 yellow strongly washed with green ; under wing-coverts and inner 

 edge of remiges sulphur-yellow, with a blackish patch near the base 

 of the first primary. Culmen 0'7-0-7o inch, wing 2'6, tail 2-7- 

 2-9, tarsus 0-75-0-b5. 



Hab. llio Xegro to Ecuador and the Upper Huallaga. 



Immature ot female birds (V. chlorogaster) have the white colour 

 beneath the ear-coverts hardly indicated, the grey feathers being 

 simply a little paler ; the subocular patch is likewise less bright than 

 in the adult male. 



3. Vireolanius pulchellus. 



Vireolanius pulchellus, Scl. i^f Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 12 ; Salv. Ibis, 1861, 

 p. 147 ; Lau-r. Ann. Lye. X. Y. vii. p. 468 ; Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 45 ; 

 Baird, Rev. Am. B. i. p. 397 j Scl. ^- Salv. E.votic Ornith. pi. 8; 

 iid. Nomencl. p. 13 ; Salv. Ibis, 1878, p. 443. 



All the upper parts, including the whole tail, the wing coverts, 

 and the outer webs of the remiges, and the sides of the head and 

 cheeks rich emerald-green ; crown of head and nape tinged with 

 light blue in position A, rich greenish blue in positions B and C ; 

 chin and throat, under wing-coverts, and inner margin of remiges 



