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*> /"• 6 2 ad.sk. St. Louis County, Missouri, E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



May2 (IT. K.'Coale). 



g. Ad. sk. Guatemala. Sclater Collection. 



h, i. Ad. sk. (xuatemala. Pui-cliased. 



k. Ad. ; /, m. Imm. sk. (xuatemala. Gould Collection. 



n. Ad. sk. Guatemala. J. Gould, Esq. 



o. Ad. sk. Honduras. Mr. Dyson [C.]. 



3. Helminthophila bachmanni, 



Sylvia bachmaui, Audub. B. Amer. pi. 185 ; id. Orn. Biogr. ii. p. 483 



' (18.34). 

 Syhicola bachmani, Hichards. Hep. Brit. Assoc. 18-36-37, p. 172. 

 Vermivora bachmaui, Bj). Comp. List B. Eur. Sf N. Amer. p. 21 (1838). 

 Helinaia bachmani, Audub. Si/n. p. 68 (18.39) ; id. B. Amer. ii. 



p. 93, pi. 108 (1841) ; Lembeye, Av. Cuba, p. 36, pi. 0. fig. 1 (1850). 

 Mniotilta bachmani, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 196 (1848) ; id. Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 2.39, no. 3460 (1869). 

 Helmitheros bachmani, Bp. Consp. i. p. 315 (1850). 

 Helminthopliaga bachmani, Gundl. J. f. O. 1855, p. 475, 18C1, 



pp. 326, 409 ; Baird, B. N.Amer. p. 2o5 (1858) ; id. Beview Amer. 



B. p. 175 (1864) ; Coues, Eeij N. Amer. B. p! 94 (1872) ; Baird, 



Brewer, ^- Ridgiv. Hist. N. Amer. B. i. p. 194, pi. 11. fig. 3 (1874) ; 



Gundl. Orn. Cuba, pp. 62, 248 (1876) ; Coues, B. Color. Vail p. 214, 



note (1878) ; Bidgw. Bull. U.S. Nat. 3Ius. no. 21, p. 16 (1881) ; 



Coues, Chech-list, p. 35 (1882). 

 Helminthophila bachmani, Ridqiu. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, yii. p. 53 



(1882) ; Bailey, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, yiii. p. 38 (1883) ; Cozies, 



Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 294 (1884). 



The general colour of the upper parts is brownish olive ; the 

 rump yellowish green, the feathers of the crown brownish black in 

 the centre ; the forehead, a line over the eye, the cheeks, the chin, 

 the sides of the neck, the flexure of the wing, lower wing-coverts, 

 and breast yellow ; the sides greenish grey ; the lower tail-coverts 

 white ; on the fore part of the neck is a large patch of black en- 

 larging beneath ; quills and tail wood-brown, narrowly margined 

 with whitish ; a largo white spot on the inner web of each of the 

 tail-feathers, excepting the two middle ones ; bill dusky brown 

 above, light blue beneath ; iris dark brown ; feet umber. Length 

 4y'T7 inches, bill along the ridge -f-ry, tarsus ^?rr. {Audubon.) 



The female is considerably smaller than the male, and differs 

 only in having the tints fainter, the forehead yellowish green, and 

 the fore neck dusky. Length 3^% inches. {Audubon.) 



Hah. South Carolina and Georgia, wintering in Cuba. 



4. Helminthophila peregrina. 



Sylvia pereErrina, Wilson, Amer. Orn. iii. p. 8.3, pi. 25. fig. 2(1811) ; 



"Audub. B. Amer. pi. 154 ; id. Orn. Biogr. ii. p. .307 (1834). 

 Sylvia tenennsaei, Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Mcth. ii. p. 452 (1823). 

 Svlvia (Vermivoia) peregrina, Swains. ^ Rich. Faun. Bor.-Amer., 



'Birds, p. 221, pi. 42, lower fig. (1831). 



