228 REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIBDS. [PART I. 
This may possibly be the female of G. speciosa, Scl., which I have 
not seen. It is certainly different from any species known to me, in 
combining characters of the two genera mentioned. 
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sonian| tor’s | and Locality. Mi ae Received from Collected by 
No. | No. | Age. , 
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SupramMiw ICTERIANA. 
ICYERIA, VIEILLotT. 
Icteria, Vir1tiot, Ois, Am. Sept. I, 1807, iii and 85. (Type Muscicapa 
viridis, Gu., Turdus virens, Linn.) 
Bill broad at base, but contracting rapidly and becoming attenuated when 
viewed from above ; high at the base (higher than broad opposite the nostrils) ; 
the culmen and commissure much curved from base; the gonys straight. 
Upper jaw deeper than the lower; bill without notch, or rictal bristles. Nos- 
trils circular, edged above with membrane, the feathers close to their borders. 
Wings shorter than tail, considerably rounded; 1st quill rather shorter than 
the 6th. Tail moderately graduated; the feathers rounded, but narrow. 
Middle toe without claw about two-thirds the length of tarsus, which has the 
scutelle fused externally into one plate. 
The precise systematic position of the genus Jcteria is a matter 
of much contrariety of opinion among ornithologists; but I have 
little hesitation in including it among the Sylvicolide. It has been 
most frequently assigned to the Vireonidx, but differs essentially 
in the deeply cleft inner toe (not half-united as in Vireo), the partially 
booted tarsi, the lengthened middle toe, the slightly curved claws, 
the entire absence of notch or hook in the bill, and the short, rounded 
wing with only nine primaries. The wing of Vireo, when much 
rounded, has ten primaries—nine being only found when the wing 
is very long and pointed. 
Icteria virems. 
Turdus virens, Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, 171, no. 16 (based on 
(:nanthe americana, pectore luteo, Yellow-breasted Chat, CaTEsBy, 
Carol. I, tab. 50). 
Muscicapa viridis, GmEutn, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 936.—Jcteria viridis, Bon. ; 
Aup. Orn. Biog. II, pl. 137.—Bairp, Birds N. Am. 1858, 248.—? Max. 
Cab. Jour. VI, 1858, 122. 
Icteria dumicola, Virtu.—Pipra polyglotta, Wits. 
?Icteria velasquezii, Bon. P. Z. S. 1837, 117 (Mexico).—Scuater & SAty. 
Ibis, I, 1859, 12 (Guatemala). 
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