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thin, llag-like leaves, iuteriuixeJ with a little cotton. It seems large for 

 tbe bird; it measures in outside diameter 5inclies; height, 2^; depth 

 of cavity, 1§ inches. There are three eggs of a dull white, sparingly 

 speckled with reddish brown, except on the larger end, where the spots 

 are confluent; two measure in length .75 of an inch and .50 in breadth; 

 the other is .55 in breadth. 



11. Dendrojca plumbea, Lawr., Auu. N. Y. Ac^id. Sci. v. I, p. 47. 

 There are no notes which apply to this species. 



12. Setophaga ruticilla (Limi.). 



" Redstart, ' Chat'. Xot common. 



" Length, 5 in. ; alar extent, 7i ; wing, 2^, <?." 



Fam. VIREONID^. 



13. Vireosylvia calidris vai-. domiiiicana, I^awr. 



" I think this bird is a summer visitor only, as I did not see it before 

 March 19, and then only one. It increased in numbers in April and 

 May; was abundant in the Indian Settlement. I send nest and eggs. 

 Its note makes it conspicuous. 



^- Length, <?, Ci in.; alar extent, lO^ ; wing, 3.J ; tail, 2f." 



"Lociil name, ' Ohewick'. Iris hazel." 



Male. — Ui)per plumage olive-green, purer and brighter than in V. 

 calidris ; cap of a clear ash, rather darker than that of var. barhatula ; 

 a distinct blackish line along the edge of the crown ; superciliary stripe 

 ashy-white; cheeks with a tinge of buff; lores and a stripe behind the 

 eye dusky: a blackish moustachial line along each side of the throat; 

 the under plumage is grayish-white, purer on the upper part of the 

 throat and abdomen ; sides pale olive-green ; under wing-coverts yellow ; 

 crissum pure pale yellow ; the bill is large and darker than in its allies ; 

 the upper mandible is blackish horn-color, the under whitish horn-color. 



The female differs in no respects from the male. 



The only necessary direct comparison with any of the West Indian 

 or moustached form is with var. barhadense, Eidg. ; that and the pres- 

 ent bird only having a distinct dark line along the edge of the crown. 

 The type of barhadense was kindly sent me by Mr. Eidgway : it is 

 smaller than the Dominica species ; the plumage above is of a lighter 

 brownish-olive, the cap not so dark, the under i)arts of a pule yellowish 

 or creamy-white, and the bill of a fleshy-brown color ; in general color- 

 ing they are quite unlike. 



The nest (marked " St. jMarie, April 22, '77 ") is not the beautiful struc- 

 ture described by Dr. Brewer (N. Am. Birds, v. 1, p. 3G2) belonging to V. 

 calidris of Jamaica, and does not appear to have been pensile; it is com- 

 posed of fine grasses, intermixed on the outside with a coarser kind of 

 a long, thin, ribbon-like form. There are but two eggs — perhaps not the 

 full complement ; they are of a dull white, rather closely spotted with 



