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head ; the sides are blackish cinereous ; a circle of pure white sur- 

 rounds the eye ; a large roundish spot on the middle of the throat, 

 the upper part of the breast, and the middle of the abdomen are 

 dull white, somewhat mixed with blackish on the throat and with 

 cinereous on the abdomen ; a very small spot on the chin and the 

 tips of the feathers on the upper part of the throat are dull white ; 

 the black on the upper part of the breast has the appearance of a 

 broad band, separating the white of the throat from that of the 

 lower part of the breast ; the under tail- coverts are cinereous black 

 at base, ending largely with dull white ; wings and tail black ; the 

 outer two tail-feathers have a small white spot, triangular in shape, 

 on their inner webs at the end ; bill black ; tarsi and toes very pale 

 yellowish brown, perhaps much lighter in the living bird, nails 

 also pale. Length (fresh) 5| inches, wing 2|, taU 2|, tarsus |. 

 (^Lawrence.) 



Sexes alike (Ober). 



Two specimens marked as females do not differ in plumage from 

 the males. Length (fresh) 5| inches, wing 2^, taU 2|, tarsus ^. 

 (LawreTice.) 



Young. Dark olive-brown above, lighter below, and where the white 

 markings are in the adult it is of a pale dull rufous ; on the throat 

 showing some white, and around the eye partially white; the marks 

 on the end of the tail-feathers are precisely as in the black specimen ; 

 the quills are dark brown ; the tail-feathers are black. (Laiurence.) 



Hah. Island of S. Yincent, West Indies. 



2. HELMINTHOTHERUS. 



Type. 



I 



Helmitheros, Rajin. Journ. de Phjs. Lsxxviii. p. 417 



(1819) H. vermivorus. 



Vermivora, Swains. Phil. Mag. 2nd ser. i. p. 434 (1827). H. vermivorus. 



Helinaia, Aiulub. Sr/n. p. 66 (1839) H. swainsoni. 



Helmitherus, Bcdrcl, lievieiv Amer. B. p. 179 (1865). 



Helmintherus, Coues, B. Color. Vail. p. 211 (1878). 



Helonsea, Neivfon, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 552. 



Helminthotherus, Salvin ^- Godman, Biol, Centr.-Amer., 

 Aves, i. p. 112 (1880). 



Bill and tail of Helminthotherus vermivorus. 



Range. North America, principally the Eastern States ; Central 

 America ; Cuba ; Jamaica. 



