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iiom lores, through the eye, widening beliind, but not crossing through the yellow. Beneath, 

 including inside of wings, white ; a large patch of black covering the chin and throat, and 

 occupying the entire space between the yellow patches of the two sides of the head and 

 neck, and extended along the sides in a series of streaks. Feathers of crissum with black 

 centres. Wings above ashy, with two white bands across the coverts, the scapialars 

 streaked with blackish ; first quill edged externally with white, the rest with gray. Tail- 

 feathers blackish, edged externally with ashy, the lateral with white at the base. Outer 

 tail-feather white on the inner web,' except a stripe along the shaft near the end ; second 

 similar, but the white not reaching so far towards the base ; third with a short patch of 

 white in the end. Bill and legs brownish-black. Bill unusually thick. Length, 4.50; 

 wing, 2.50 ; tail, 2.40 ; tarsus, 2.75. 



Hab. Vera Paz, Guatemala; San Antonio, and Medina River, Texas. (Heermasn 

 and Drksser.) 



Tlie capture of specimens of this species at San Antonio, Texas, by Dr. 

 lleerniann, and on the Medina River by Mr. Dresser, entitles it to a place in 

 <uir fauna. The specimen described above is Mr. Salvin's type. 



Habits. A single specimen is said to have been taken near San Antonio, 

 Texas, by Dr. Heermann. It is thought to be probably a bird belonging to 

 the fauna of Arizona and New Mexico, and is given hypothetically by Dr. 

 Cooper among the birds of California. In its appearance it resembles D. 

 virens, D. totimscndii, and D. occidentalis. It was originally described by 

 Salvin from a single specimen obtained in Guatemala. Another pair was 

 afterward obtained by Mr. Salvin on the highest point of the road between 

 Salama and Tactic. In regard to its habits, nothing is on record. 



Dendroica virens, Bated. 



BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER. 



Motacilla virens, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 985. Sylvia virens. Lath. ; Vieillot ; 

 WiLS. II ; NuTT. ; Bon. ; AuD. Orn. Biog. IV, pi. eccxcix. — Gatke, Naumannia, 

 1858, 423 (Heligoland, Europe, an original description). Si/lvicola vireTis, Sw. ; AuD. 

 • Birds Am. II, pi. Ixxxiv. — Reinhardt, Vid. Med. for 1853, 1854, 72, 81 (Greenland). 

 EkimanpJms virens. Cab. Mus. Hein. Jour. Ill, 1855, 474 (Cuba ; winter). — Sclatek, 

 P. Z. S. 1856, 291 (Cordova). Dendroica virens, Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 267 ; 

 Rev. 182. — ScLATER & Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 1 (Guatemala). —Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, 

 363 (Oaxaca ?) ; 373 (Xalapa) ; Ibis, 1865, 89. — Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Lye. VII, 1861, 

 293 (Panama). — GuNDL. Cab. Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba). — Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 232. 

 — Samuels, 222. Mniotilta virens, Reinhardt, Ibis, III, 1861, 5 (Julianhaab, Green- 

 land). 



Sp. Char. Male. Upper parts, exclusive of wing and tail, clear j^ellovv olive-green ; 

 the feathers of the back with hidden streaks of black. Forehead and sides of head and 

 neck, including a superciliary stripe, bright yellow. A dusky olive line from the bill 

 through the eye, and another below it. Chin, throat, and forepai-t of the breast, extend- 

 ing some distance along on the sides, continuous black ; rest of under parts white, tinged 

 with yellow on the breast and flanks. Wings and tail-feathers dark brown, edged with 

 bluish-gray ; two white bands on the wing ; the greater part of the three outer tail-feath- 

 ers white. Female similar, but duller ; the throat yellow ; the black of breast much con- 



