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the breast and sides. From a specimen in my collection shot at Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., July 11, 1873. This bird has also two patches of bright 

 yellow on the breast. 



34. Perissoglossa tigrina. 

 First "plumage', female. Remiges, rectrices, and primary coverts as in 

 adult. Pileum, nape, rump, and upper tail-coverts dark slaty-brown, 

 the back with an Indistinct patch of olive-green. Eyelids, throat, jugu- 

 lum, and sides of breast dark slate; abdomen, anal region, and crissum 

 solid white, tinged with dull yellow. From a specimen in my collection 

 shot at Upton, Me., August 21, 1874. This bird exhibits a few irregular 

 patches and isolated feathers of dull yellow on the breast and throat, fore- 

 runners of the fall plumage. 



35. Siurus auricapillus. 



"First plumage. Remiges, rectrices, etc., as in the adult. R^st of 

 upper parts dull fulvous-brown ; the crown without stripes, all the feathers 

 very indistinctly darker centrally ; lower parts paler, more buffy, fulvous, 

 growing gradually white toward the crissum, the buffy portions (breast 

 and sides), with very fine indistinct streaks of dusky. From a specimen 

 in my collection obtained near Washington." — R. R. 



36. Oporornis formosa. 



" First plumage. Remiges, rectrices, primary coverts, and alula? as in the 

 adult. Pileum and hack dull raw-umber-brown, tinged with rusty on the 

 back and scapulars; throat, jugulum, breast, and sides pale grayish-fulvous, 

 the abdomen and crissum paler, and slightly tinged with yellow. So 

 markings of any sort about the head. My collection. Mt. Carmel, 111., 

 July 27, 1875." — R. R. 



37. Icteria virens. 



'■First plumage. Remiges, rectrices, etc., as in the adult. Head, su- 

 periorly and laterally, uniform grayish-olive, with a barely appreciable 

 whitish Bupraloral line and orbital ring, and without black markings. 

 Whole thmat pale ash-gray (almost while on the chin), stained laterally 

 and anteriorly with yellow ; entire breast gamboge-yellow, obscured with 

 olivaceous-gray across the jugulum (probably entirely gray at first, the 

 yellow feathers being probably the beginning of the first moult). Ab- 

 domen white; flanks and crissum pale buff. In my collection from Mt. 

 Carmel. 111., July I!). L875." -R. R. 



38. Myiodioctes canadensis. 

 First plumagi : female. Remiges, rectrices, etc., similar to the adults. 

 Etesl of the upper parts, including wing-coverts and Bides of head, uniform 

 deep dull cinnamon ; the greater coverts tipped with fulvous. Throat, 

 breast, and Bides very light cinnamon, tinged with olive. Anal and ab- 

 dominal regions pale sulphur-yellow. No conspicuous spots, stripes, or 



