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fore neck ; cheeks and under surface of body bright yellow, including 

 the thighs and under tail-coverts ; sides of the breast and flanks 

 olive ; axillaries olive like the sides of the breast ; under wing- 

 coverts yellow, mottled with dusky bases near the edge of the wing ; 

 quiUs pale dusky brown below, pale ashy brown along the inner 

 web : " bill pale brownish black above, lighter beneath ; feet flesh- 

 colour ; iris hazel " {Audubon). Total length 5 inches, culmen 0*5, 

 wing 2*7, tail 2, tarsus 0'9. 



Adult male in ivinter. Duller in colour than in summer, darker 

 olive-green above, and having the entire head slaty grey with con- 

 cealed black bases to the feathers. The summer plumage is gained 

 by the wearing away of these grey tips to the feathers, the black 

 facial markings being affected in the same manner as the crown. 



In the Salvin-and-Godman collection is a female from Chepo, 

 Panama, which is quite as brightly coloured as the male, showing 

 no ditierence in the sexual colouring. 



Young birds resemble the adult excepting in the colour of the 

 head, which is like the back, but is a little browner olive ; the yel- 

 low eyebrow and eyelid are well indicated, but the black lores and 

 ear-coverts are dingy and obscured with olive. Specimens killed in 

 the winter-home of the species in Central America show the black 

 coronal patch concealed by the olive-brown tips to the feathers, and in 

 the following spring the full plumage of the adult is gained by the 

 wearing oft' of the above-mentioned tips, just as in the fully adult bird. 



Hah. Eastern United States north to the Connecticut vallej' ; also 

 known to occur near Quebec ; not abundant, but common in certain 

 sections, as in Illinois, Kansas, and other portions of the Mississippi 

 valley {Cones). Winters throughout Central America from Mexico 

 to Panama (<S'. ^" G.) ; Cuba. 



a. Ad. sk. Cleveland, Ohio. Prof. Kirtland [P.]. 



b. 5 juv. sk. Mount Carmel, Aug. 9 {S. U.S. Nat. Museum [P.]. 



Turner). 



c. 5 ad. sk. Cahokie Kiver, Illinois, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



May -21 {H. K. Code). 



d. cJ ad. sk. Eockwood, Tennessee, U.S. Nat. Museum [P.]. 



April 24 ( W. H. Fox). 



e. Ad. sk. ' Penn.sylvania {Baird). Sclater Collection. 

 /". cJad. hiem. sk. Dueuas, Guatemala. 0. Salvin, Esq. [P.]. 

 g. Ad. ; h, i. Juv. Guatemala. Gould Collection. 



hiem. sk. 

 A;. Ad. hiem.sk. V&n&ma. {MacLeannan). Sclater Collection. 



12. LIGIA. 



Tj-pe. 



Ligea, Cory, Ank, i. p. 1 (1884) L. palustris. 



Range. Island of S. Domingo. 



1. Ligia palustris. 



Ligea palustris, Corif, Auk, i. p. 1, pi. 1 (1884) ; id. B. S. Domingo, 

 1. p. m, pi. iii. (1884). 



Male. Crown, nape, and upper portion of back slaty plumbeous ; 

 rest of back and upper surface of wings and tail yellowish green ; 

 throat, breast, and sides greyish plumbeous, showing a dull olive 



