334 MNIOTILTID.?:. 



the rump subterminally silky white : lesser and median wing-coverts 

 leaden grey like the back, the latter tipped with white ; greater 

 coverts dusky blackish, edged externally with leaden grey and tipped 

 with white, forming a double wing-bar; quills blackish, edged with 

 leaden grey, lighter and more ashy on the primaries, the first of 

 which is margined with ashy white ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; 

 tail-feathers blackish, washed with slaty grey externally, the centre 

 ones leaden grey with blaok centres, all the others fringed with 

 white near the end of the inner web, widening into a spot on the 

 two outer feathers ; head like the back, but a little darker ; a rather 

 narrow eyebrow of white : lores blackish ; feathers below the eye 

 and eyelid white ; ear-coverts dark leaden grey, with paler shaft- 

 streaks ; cheeks and sides of neck leaden grey, the former mottled 

 with whitish bases ; under siu'face of body dull white, washed with 

 ashv grey, with which colour the feathers are margined and tipped ; 

 sides of body entirely ashy grey ; thighs, under tail-coverts, and 

 under wing-coverts white ; axillaries ashy, edged with white ; quills 

 dusky below, ashy along the inner web. Total length 4-9 inches, 

 culmen 0-5, wing 2-5, tail 2-1, tarsus 0'8. 



Adult female. Dark olive-green above, the head a little duller, the 

 lesserwing-coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts blackish, 

 edged narrowly with olive and tipped with yellowish white : bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky, edged with olive, ashy 

 towards the ends of the primaries ; tail-feathers dusky, edged with 

 dark olive-green and fringed with white near the tip of the inner 

 web, a little more expanded and forming a spot on the outer feather, 

 but not to the same extent as in the male ; a narrow eyebrow of 

 pale yellowish ; lores and sides of face and ear-coverts dark olive- 

 green, with narrow yellow shaft-lines ; feathers below the eye and 

 eyelid pale olive-yellow ; under surface of body dull ashy olive 

 varied with olive-yellow, with which the feathers of the throat and 

 chest are margined ; centre of breast, abdomen, thighs, and under 

 tail-coverts pale olive-yellow ; sides of the breast and flanks dark 

 olive-green, as also the thighs ; axillaries ashy, edged Avith olive- 

 yellow ; under wing-coverts white, tinged with yellow ; quills dusky, 

 whitish along the edge of the inner web. Total length 5 inches, 

 culmen 0-5, wing 2-25, tail 2, tarsus Owo. 



Hah. Islands of Dominica and Guadeloupe in the West Indies. 



a. S ad. sk. Dominica {F. A. Oher). Sclater Collection 



b. $ ad. sk. Guadeloupe {F. A. Ober). Sclater Collection 



8. PERISSOGLOSSA^ 



Type 



Dendrceca, pt., auct. 



Perissoglossa, Baird, Eevieic Amer. B. p. 180 (1865) .... P. tigrina. 



Range. From Lake "Winnipeg and Hudson's Bay, throughout 

 Eastern United States ; Jamaica ; S. Domingo ; Bahamas. 



* The difference in the tongue of this genus from that of Dendrceca is 

 explained ty Professor Baird in the ' Birds of North America ' and in his 

 Review.' 



