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on the tips of the feathers ; lores, sides of face, ear-coverts, sides of 

 neck, throat, aud fore neck clearer slaty grey ; the throat and fore 

 neck mottled with black bases to the feathers ; in front of the eye 

 a small spot of dusky black ; remainder of under surface of body 

 bright yellow, rather paler on the thighs and under tail-coverts ; 

 sides of body aud flanks olive-green ; axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts yellow, with dull ashy bases ; edge of wing bright yellow ; 

 quills dusky below, ashy along the edge of the inner web : " upper 

 mandible brownish black, its edges in their whole length pale 

 yellowish flesh-colour ; lower mandible pale yellowish flesh-colour, 

 a little dusky at the end ; feet and claws flesh-colour ; iris hazel " 

 (Audubon). Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2*55, tail 2-2, 

 tarsus 0-85. 



In the summer plumage the olive-brown tips become worn off and 

 the head is purer grey, while the abrasion of the tips to the feathers 

 of the throat and fore neck cause the black on these parts to be 

 more distinct. 



Jlab. Eastern province of the United States and British America, 

 casually to Greenland : west to Kansas, Missouri, and Dakota ; 

 south to Costa Rica and New Granada, but no Mexican nor West- 

 Indian quotations ; no United-States wintering record : breeds in 

 the northern portions of its habitat, as New England, and very 

 abundantly in Minnesota and Eastern Dakota : common in the 

 Mississippi valley, but rare along the Atlantic States. (Coues.). 

 Winters in Central America, Costa Eica, and Panama, and extends 

 into the Magdalena and Cauca valleys in Colombia {S. <Sf G.). 



a. 5 juv. sk. North America. U.S. Nat. Museum [P.]. 



b. cj ad sk. Pembina, Dakota, June Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(-£". Coues). 



c. S ad. sk. Lake Forest, HI., May 23 E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.l. 



(H. K. Coak). 



d. S ad. sk. Warsaw, Ilhnois, May 19 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. fP.]. 



(H. K. Coak). 



e. cJ ad. sk. Williamsport, Penn. U.S. Nat. Museum [P.]. 



(Hoosevelt). 



f. g. (S ad sk. Aiio-ostm-a, Costa Rica, Salvin-Godman CoU. 



Feb. and March {J. 



Carmiol). 

 h. (S ad. sk. Chiriqui, Veragua (E. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Arce). 

 i. (S ad. sk. Bogota. Salvin-Godman CoU. 



k. Ad. sk. Bogota (Chesterton). Sclater Collection. 



/. c? ad. sk. Medellin, U. S. Colombia Salviu-Godman Coll. 



(T. K Salmo7i). 

 m. (5 juv. sk. Santa Elena, Autioquia Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(T. K. S.). 



14. TERETISTRIS. 



type. 

 Teretistris, Cab. J. f. O. 1855, p. 475 .... T. fernandin.T. 



Range. Island of Cuba, West Indies. 



