Bryant.] 252 



near the tip ; the basal third and quite a large spot, more than an inch 

 in length, near the tip of 4th, and a very distinct spot on the tip of 5th. 

 No. 33,476. Length of dried skin, 205; wing from flexure, 110; 

 1st primary more than i- of 2d ; 3d, 4th and 5th, nearly equal and 

 longest; 2d, longer than 8th; tail, 110; tarsus, 31 ; middle toe and 

 claw, 28i; claw alone, 8-i- ; bill along ridge, 21. Above ashy, feath- 

 ers of the head with the centres darker, lores dusky, a whitish supra- 

 ocular line, commencing at the nostrils gradually disappearing behind 

 the eye. AVings blackish-brown, the middle and inner greater coverts 

 tipped with white and with the margins narrowly edged as if faded, 

 the outer greater coverts white with a spatulate shaped spot of dark 

 brown running down the shaft near the tip ; the smaller coverts edged 

 with ashy like the back, base of all the primaries white, extending 

 farther on the inner than outer webs, occuppng about ^ of the first 

 and |- of the 10th. Secondaries tipped with white, and narrowly mar- 

 gined as if faded. Tail blackish-brown, marked with white, as above 

 described ; beneath white, the bristly tips of chin feathers black and a 

 very indistinct black stripe formed by the blackish tips of the feathers ; 

 bill black, tarsi and toes dark bluish horn, claws black. 



Hirundo. 



Progne. 

 Hirundo dominicensis Gm. 



Petroclielidon. 

 Hirundo fulva Vieillot. 



Certhiola. 



Certhiola fiaveola. Var. portoricensis. Several specimens. Read- 

 ily distinguishable from the Jamaican bird by its smaller size, the 

 lighter color of the back and throat and the absence of any tinge 

 of red in the yellow of the breast. 



Vireo. 



Vireo Latimeri Baird. This species will be described by Prof Baird 

 in his "Review." 



Tanagra. 



Spindalis. 



Tanagra portoricensis. Several specimens. 



Ko. 36,502. S. Length of dried skin, 150; length of wing, 81 ; 

 length of tail, 60 ; length of bill along ridge, 9 ; tarsus, 20^ ; mid- 



