396 REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. [PART I. 
Common CHARACTERS.—Top of head and nape either bright blue or lead color, 
in abrupt contrast to the uniform deep green of the rest of upper parts. 
Bill blackish. 
A. Beneath white, with rufous pectoral band. Legs yellow. 
Head above and nape bright blue. 
A band above eye, and spot below it, yellow. 
A line through the eye, and one from 
lower edge of lower mandible, black - melitophrys. 
B. Beneath olivaceous or yellowish, without bands. Throat 
yellow. Legs dusky. 
Head above and nape bright blue. Sides of head 
green, like back. Beneath olivaceous. 
A well marked yellow supra-ocular line and , 
infra-ocular spot. : ° ght eXIMIUS. 
No distinct line nor spot as above . . . pulchellus. 
Head above and nape lead color. Sides of head with- 
out green like the back. Beneath yellowish. A 
supra-ocular line and infra-ocular spot of yellow. 
An ocular and a subocular blackish plumbeous 
band, with white interspace behind. Be- 
neath yellowish . . : ° . icterophrys. 
Sides of head nearly uniform plumbeous, the 
markings indicated above very obsolete. 
Beneath olivaceous . : . - chlorogaster. 
Vireolanius melitophrys. 
Vireolanius melitophrys, “ Dusus MS.,” Boy. Consp. 1850, 330 (Mexico). 
—Scu. P. Z. 8. 1857, 213; 1859, 363.—Is. Catal. 1861, 45, no. 271. 
Hab. Southern Mexico and Guatemala. 
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(No. 447.) Back and upper surface of wings and tail bright olive green; 
head above and nape ash color; under parts and sides of head and neck below 
Vireolanius melitophrys, DuBus. (Mexico and Guatemala.) 
