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tance from nostrils to tip; culmen gently 
curved. Ash of head contracted, and con- 
fined to the vertex ; the olive of nape extend- 
ing to the black of the ears . ; : . equinoctialis. 
The black of face confined to loral region, and just below 
eye, or extending only in a narrow ring behind it. 
Eyelids white ? 
Bill very stout; height more than half the dis- 
tance from nostrils to tip; culmen much 
curved. Ash of head extending over nape 
and sides of head behind the eyes, and in- 
cluding ear coverts . ° : 5 . poliocephala. 
No distinct frontal black band. Head and neck all round, with 
jugulum, ashy ; the feathers on the lower throat and jugu- 
lum blackish in the centres. Rest of under parts yellow. 
Loral region dusky only; space round the eye 
blackish, without white feathers . : - philadelphia. 
Loral region blackish ; eyes with a patch of white 
feathers on upper and lower lids . = « macgillivrayt. 
Geothlypis trichas. 
Turdus trichas, Linn. 8. N. 1766, 293.—Sylvia trichas, Lata. ; AuD., etc. 
—D’Ors. La Sagra’s Cuba, Ois. 1840, 67.— Geothlypis trichas, Cas. 
Mus. Hein. 1850, 16.—Barrp, Birds N. Am. 241.—Gounpuacu, Cab. 
Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba).—SctaTeEr, Catal. 1861, 27, no. 167.—Marcu, 
Pr. A. N. Sc. 1863, 293.—Lorp, Pr. R. Art. Inst. Woolwich, IV, 
1864, 115 (N. W. Boundary).—Joners, Nat. Bermuda, 29. 
Sylvia marilandica, Witson.—Trichas mar. Bon. : 
Regulus mystaceus, SreEPHENS.—Trichas personatus, SwAinson.—Sylvia 
roscoe, Aup.—Trichas brachydactylus, SwAtns. 
OrHeER LocaAitiEs QuoreD: Xalapa, Oaxaca, Cordova, Sct.— Guatemala, 
Sct. & Satv.— Bahamas, Bryant. 
Figures: Vieitu. Ois. II, pl. 28, 29.—Avp. Orn. Biog. I, II, V, pl. 23, 
102, 240.—Wits. I, pl. vi, fig. 1.—Burron, Pl. enl. 709, fig. 2. 
Hab. The ~vhole United States, from Atlantic to Pacific, and south to Guate- 
mala; Bermuda (October) ; Bahamas; Cuba; Jamaica. 
(No. 26,024, 4.) Wings a little shorter than the somewhat graduated tail. 
Bill slender, the depth contained about two and a half times in distance 
from nostrils to tip. First quill about equal to seventh. Forehead to above 
the anterior edge of the eye, and across the entire cheeks, ears, and jaws, 
and ending in an angle on sides of neck, black, with a suffusion of hoary 
bluish-gray behind it on the crown and sides of neck; the occipital and 
nuchal region grayish-brown, passing insensibly into the olive green of the 
upper parts. Chin, throat, jugulum, edge of wing and crissum, rich yellow 
(the latter paler) ; rest of under parts, with lining of wings, yellowish-white, 
the sides tinged with brownish ; outer primary edged with whitish, the others 
with olive green. Bill black; legs yellowish. 
