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but with the outer feather not attenuated ; tarsi and feet rather 

 robust. Head, neck, and back, of a beautiful velvety green with 

 a slight shade of olive, almost precisely the same as the green 

 of the H, thalasdna ; a black band from nostril to the eye. 

 Upper tail coverts, wing coverts, and secondaries, bright steel 

 blue, the primaries and tail feathers more or less greenish, and the 

 feathers of the latter very narrowly margined externally and more 

 widely internally, except toward the tips, with whitish. Below 

 snowy white. Bill black ; tarsi and feet dark horn color. Length, 

 .155 ; to end of claws, .122 ; to end of wings, .189 ; extent, .292; 

 wing from flexure, .112 ; tail beyond wings, .012 ; length of tail, 

 .069 ; difference in tail feathers, .028 ; tarsus, .009 ; middle toe, 

 .01, its claw, .0052 ; hind toe, .005, its claw, .005 ; outer toe, .008, 

 its claw, .0037 ; inner toe, .007, its claw, .0037 ; bill along ridge, 

 .0062; gape, .015; depth of bill, .0022; breadth, .0055 ; length 

 of nostril, .001 ; breadth, .0007. Adult female — Plumage much 

 less brightly colored than in the male ; the green on the forehead 

 dusky, and the tertiaries narrowly margined with whitish. The 

 white of the lower parts less pure ; a httle dusky on the breast 

 and fore neck, and cinereous on the flanks. 



Lanivireo crassirostris. This species of Vireo is, I think, 

 undescribed. It is not a common bird ; three specimens were all 

 I obtained. When first seen I mistook it for the white-eyed 

 Vireo. I noticed nothing remarkable in its habits. All the speci- 

 mens procured were actively engaged in hunting insects in small 

 trees in the midst of a clearing about three miles from the city, 

 on the road leading to the south side of the island. The first 

 specimen was procured in March; the other two, a pair, in 

 May. 



Description. Adult male — Above bright yellowish olive 

 washed with gray ; upper tail coverts rather more greenish than 

 the rest ; a spot of bright sulphur yellow from nostril to the eye, 

 narrowly encircling the latter. Wings brownish, with the outer 

 margins of the primaries and some of the secondaries greenish 

 olive; two very distinct pale yellowish white bands across the 

 wings, formed by the tips of the coverts ; the posterior continuous 

 with a longitudinal band of the same color formed by the edges 

 of the secondaries next the body. Tail brown, with the margins 

 of the feathers olive green. Below pale sulphur yellow, with the 



