254 REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. [PART I. 



Entirely lustrous blaok, including head and neck. 

 No vertex spot. A white patch on tlie wings. 

 SetopluKja. 



Forehead black. A broad band on the wings 

 and almost the whole of outer tail feather 

 white ....... picta, Sw. 



Forehead white. A narrow band on the wings 



and tips only of lateral tail feathers white multicolor^ Bp. 

 Plumbeous ash, including head and neck. A chest- 

 nut brown vertex-spot. No white on wings. 

 Myiohurus. 



Throat, lores, and forehead continuously pure 

 black. Spot on vertex uniform dark chest- 

 nut, scarcely margined on the sides with 

 black. Inner web of outer tail feather 

 white for terminal two-fifths ; 3d feather 

 with a distinct white tip. Tail, 3.00 . viiniata, Sw. 

 Black of head somewhat tinged with plumbe- 

 ous ; a distinct band of this color extend- 

 ing from bill over the eye, cutting off 

 the black of forehead. Spot on vertex 

 orange chestnut, lighter at base, and 

 quite broadly margined witli blackish. 

 White on outer tail feather restricted to 

 terminal third ; 3d feather with a small 

 white tip or none. Tail, 2.75 . . Jiammea, Kaup. 



Beneath clear yellow, or with a tinge of orange. Crissum 

 whitish. Vertex with an orange brown spot (except 

 in 7nelanoce])hala). Above plumbeous ash. Wings 

 and tail black. Myiohorus. 



Head and neck aU round like the back. 



Breast and belly gamboge yellow. Forehead 

 and sides of vertex plumbeous. Outer 

 tail feather white for more than terminal 

 third ....... verticalis, Lafr. 



Breast and belly yellowish-orange. Forehead 

 and sides of vertex black. Outer tail 

 feather with less than terminal half white aurantiaca, Balrd. 

 Head and neck above like the back. Whole under 

 parts yellow ; base of bill above yellow (except 

 in brunneiceps). A dusky loral spot. No pec- 

 toral collar. 



A cinnamon vertex spot encircled by black, 



extending below and upwards into the , 



eye to the gape. A dusky loral spot. 

 Circum-ocular region, and line to bill 



