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MHIOTILTID^. 



lores, feathers above and round the eye, car-coverts, and cheeks 

 black, forming a patch which extends a little way down the sides of 

 the neck ; the black forehead succeeded by a broad band of bluish 

 white, occupying the top of the head and skirting the black ear- 

 coverts to the sides of the neck ; hinder crown, occiput, and nape 

 rather browner than the rest of the back ; entire under surface of 

 body bright yellow, becoming paler and whiter on the lower abdomen, 

 the vent being tinged with saffron ; under tail-coverts bright yellow ; 

 sides of body and flanks olive-greenish washed with ashy ; thighs 

 olive-greenish externally, ashy whitish on their inner aspect ; axil- 

 laries and under ■\ving-coverts yellow, with ashy white bases ; edge 

 of wing bright yellow ; quills ashy brown below, paler ashy along 

 the edge of the inner web. Total length 4-8 inches, culmen 0'5, 

 wing 2-25, tail 2-15, tarsus 0'85. 



Adult female. General colour above dull olive-brown, slightly 

 more oUve-jellow on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts 

 like the back, the bastard-wing and primary-coverts dull brown ; 

 quills dark brown, externally edged with olive, the first primary 

 whitish along the edge of the outer web ; tail-feathers dull yellowish 

 olive, lighter on the edges ; head decidedly browner than the back, 

 and somewhat rufous-brown on the crown ; lores ashy white ; eye- 

 lid clearer whitish ; ear-coverts olive-brown, yellowish near the 

 lower edge, and with pale yePowish-brown shaft-lines ; cheeks and 

 under surface of body pale yellow, becoming whiter on the abdomen, 

 the sides of the neck and breast washed with pale reddish brown ; 

 flanks and sides of the body and thighs light earthy brown ; under 

 tail-coverts bright yellow, pale reddish brown near the vent ; under 

 wing-coverts and axUlaries pale yellow, brighter along the edge of 

 the wing ; quills dusky below, ashy along the edge of the inner web. 

 Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-25, taU 2-3, tarsus 0-8. 



Rab. Mexico. 



a. c? ad. sk. Mexico {Becker). Sclater Collection, 



h. J ad. sk. Mexico {Boucard). Sclater Collection. 



c. Ad. sk. Mexico. ' Sclater CoUection. 



d, e. J $ ad. sk. Mexico. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



f. (S ad. sk. Near city of Mexico Salviu-Godman Coll. 



{Angela). 



g. (S ad. sk. Jalapa, Mexico (Hoge). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4. Geothlypis beldingi. 



Geothlypis beldingi, Eidgiv. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 344 (1882). 



Adult male. General colour above dull yellowish olive, rather 

 brighter towards the rump and upper tail-coverts ; lesser and 

 median wing-coverts like the back ; greater series ashy brown,, 

 externally like the back ; bastard- wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 light or ashy brown, externally edged with yellowish olive, the first 

 primary margined with ashy white ; tail-feathers olive-brown, more 

 yellowish olive on the outer edges, the external feathers narrowly 

 fringed with whity-brown at the tips ; a broad frontal band of 



