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tance from nostrils to tip; culmen gently 

 curved. Ash of head contracted, and con- 

 fined to the vertex ; tlie olive of nape extend- 

 ing to the black of the ears .... acquinoctialis. 

 The black of face confined to loral region, and just below 

 eye, or extending only in a narrow ring behind it. 

 Eyelids white ? 



Bill very stout ; height more than half the dis- 

 tance from nostrils to tip ; culmen much 

 curved. Ash of head extending over nape 

 and sides of head behind the eyes, and in- 

 cluding ear coverts ..... poliocephala. 

 No distinct frontal black band. Head and neck all round, with 

 jugulum, ashy ; tlie feathers on the lower throat and jugu- 

 lum blackish in the centres. Rest of under parts yellow. 

 Loral region dusky only ; space round the eye 



blackish, without white feathers . . . Philadelphia. 



Loral region blackish ; eyes with a patch of white 



feathers on upper and lower lids . . . macgillivrayi. 



Geotlilypis triclias. 



Tardus trichas, Linn. S. N. 1766, 293. — Sylvia trichas:, Lath. ; Add., etc. 



— D'Orb. La Sagra's Cuba, Ois. 1840, 67. — GeothJypis trichas, Cab. 



Mus. Heiu. 1850, 16. — Baikd, Birds N. Am. 241.— Gdndlach, Cab. 



Jour. 1861,326 (Cuba).— Sclater, Catal. 1861, 27, no. 167.— March, 



Pr. A. N. So. 1863, 293.— Lord, Pr. R. Art. Inst. Woolwich, IV, 



1864, 115 (N. W. Boundary).— Jones, Nat. Bermuda, 29. 

 Sylvia marilandica, Wilson. — Trichas mar. Bon. 

 Regulus mystaceiis, Stephens. — Trichas personatus, Swainson. — Sylvia 



roscoe, Aud. — Trichas hrachydactylus, Swains. 

 Other Localities Quoted : Xalapa, Oaxaca, Cordova, Scl. — Guatemala, 



ScL. & Salv. — 'Bahamas, Bryant. 

 Figures : Vieill. Ois. II, pi. 28, 29.— Aud. Orn. Biog. I, II, V, pi. 23, 



102, 240.— WiLS. I, pi. vi, fig. 1.— BuFFON, Pi. enl. 709, fig. 2. 



Hah. The -rhole United States, from Atlantic to Pacific, and south to Guate- 

 mala , Bermuda (October) ; Bahamas ; Cuba ; Jamaica. 



(No. 26,024, 'J, .) Wings a little shorter than the somewhat graduated tail. 

 Bill slender, the depth contained about two and a half times in distance 

 from nostrils to tip. First quill about equal to seventh. Forehead to above 

 the anterior edge of the eye, and across the entire cheeks, ears, and jaws, 

 and ending in an angle on sides of neck, black, with a suflfusion of hoary 

 bluish-gray behind it on the crown and sides of neck ; the occipital and 

 nuchal region grayish-brown, passing insensibly into the olive green of the 

 uj)per parts. Chin, throat, jugulum, edge of wing and crissum, rich yellow 

 (the latter paler) ; rest of under parts, with lining of wings, yellowish-wliite, 

 th sides tinged with brownish ; outer primary edged with whitish, the others 

 with olive green. Bill black ; legs yellowish. 



