VIREOSYLVIA. 329 



Second i^riiiiary about equal to sixth, or longer . gilru. 

 Second primary about equal to seventh. Bill 



much depressed ...... swainsoni. 



Spurious primary longer, rather more than one-third 

 the second quill. Cap brown. Back olive. Chin 

 and throat white ; rest of under parts sulphur 

 yellow. 



Second primary about equal to seventh ' . . josephx. 



Vireosylvia calidris. 



i Motacilla calidris, Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, 184; 12th ed. I, 

 17(iti, 329 (based on Edwards, tab. 121, fig. 2 (Jamaica). — Vireo- 

 sylvia calidris, Baird. 



? Muscicapa oliracea, Lixn. S. N. I, 17G6, 327 (Muscicapa olivacea, Ed- 

 wards, tab. 253, Jamaica). 



? Vireo virens, Bodd. Tabl. PI. enl. 1782 (based on PI. enl. 273, fig. 1, 

 Merle de St. Domingue). 



? Tardus liispanioleiisis, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 822 (based on Merida 

 olivacea domiiiicensis, Brisson, II, 29(J, St. Domingo). 



Muscicapa aliiloqiia, ViEiLL. Ois. Am. Sept. I, 1807, 07, pi. 31 (St. Do- 

 mingo). — Vireo alfiloqua, Gray, Genera. — Salle, P. Z. S. 1857, 

 231 (St. Domingo).— March, Pr. A. N. Sc. 1863, 294 (Jamaica ; 

 eggs). — Vireosylcia altiloqua, BoN. Consp. 1850, 330. — A. & E. New- 

 ton, Ibis, 1859, 149 (Santa Cruz; eggs). — Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Lye. 

 VIII, 1864, 99 (Sombrero).— ??Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 1864, 

 348 (Isthmus Panama !).—Cassin, Pr. A. N. Sc. 1860, 375 (St. 

 Thomas).— ScLATER, P. Z. S. 1861, 72 (Jamaica).— Ib. Catal. 1861, 

 43, no. 262. 



Vireo longirostris, Swainson, F. B. A. II, 1831, 237 (Jamaica). 



Phyllomanes mystacalis, Cab. Wieg. Arch. 1847 ; Orn. Not. II, 348 (West 

 Indies). 



Vireosylvia olivacea, Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 194. 



Vireosylvia atripennis, Lawrence, Pr. A. N. Sc. 1863, 106 (Sombrero). 



Hah. Jamaica, St. Domingo, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, Santa Cruz, and 

 Sombrero. 



(No. 23,324, % .) Second and 3d quills equal, then 4th, the 1st intermediate 

 between 4th and 5th, but nearer the former. 



Top of head dull ash color, the rest of upper parts olive green (also tinging 

 the ash of head), washed very slightly with brownish; pure olivaceous only 

 towards rump, and on the edges of quills and tail feathers ; the outer edges 

 of greater secondary wing coverts more yellowish. Beneath white, tinged 

 with greenish-yellow, the sides olivaceous, with a decided tinge of the same 

 across the breast ; the crissum, axillars, and edges of the inner wing coverts 

 greenish-yellow. Inner edges of the primary quills nearly white, of the 

 secondaries and of the tail feathers olivaceons-yellowish. 



A broad pale stripe from nostrils over the eye to nape, anteriorly tinged 

 strongly with buff; a dusky stripe from commissure through the eye, and a 



