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REVIEW OF AMERICAN EIRDS. 



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Common Characters. — Top of Lead and nape eitlier bright blue or lead color, 

 in abrupt contrast to the uniform deep green of the rest of upper parts. 

 Bill blackish. 



A. Beneath white, with rufous jiectoral band. Legs yellow. 



Head above and nape bright blue. 



A band above eye, and spot below it, yellow. 

 A line through the eye, and one from 

 lower edge of lower mandible, black . melitophrys. 



B. Beneath olivaceous or yellowish, without bands. Throat 



yellow. Legs dusky. 



Head above and nape bright blue. Sides of head 

 green, like back. Beneath olivaceous. 



A well marked yellow supra-ocular line and 



infra ocular spot ..... eximius. 

 No distinct line nor spot as above . . . pulchellus. 

 Head above and nape lead color. Sides of head with- 

 out green like the back. Beneath yellowish. A 

 supra-ocular line and infra-ocular spot of yellow. 

 An ocular and a subocular blackish plumbeous 

 band, with white interspace behind. Be- 

 neath yellowish icterophrys. 



Sides of head nearly uniform plumbeous, the 

 markings indicated above very obsolete. 

 Beneath olivaceous .... chlorogaster. 



VireotaBiius melitoplirys. 



Vireolanius melitophrys, "DubusMS.," Bon. Consp. 1850, 330 (Mexico). 

 — ScL. P. Z. S. 1857, 213; 1859, 363.— Ib. Catal. 1861, 45, no. 271. 

 Hab. Southern Mexico and Guatemala. 



(No. 447.) Back and upper surface of wings and tail bright olive green; 

 head above and nape ash color ; under parts and sides of head and neck below 



Vireolanitts melitophrys, Dt'Bfs. (Mexico and Guatemala.) 



