400 REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. [PART I. 
Beneath greenish-yellow, more olive on the sides ; clearer yellow on the chin, 
inner face of wings, and inner edges of quills. A band from nostrils over 
and beyond the eyes, and a spot on lower eyelid, yellow ; rest of sides of head 
plumbeous, with the dusky and white bands of icterophrys very obsoletely 
indicated. Bill dusky; legs paler. 
Total length, 4.60; wing, 2.60; tail, 2.10; exposed portion of 1st primary, 
.85, of 2d, 1.72, of longest (5th) (measured from exposed base of Ist primary), 
2.05; length of bill from nostril, .40; tarsus, .72. 
The forehead and side of crown are tinged with olive, and in the 
plumbeous of the sides of head are indicated very obsoletely an 
olivaceous line from commissure through and behind the eye, and 
another from side of lower jaw, beneath it; the two separated behind 
by a paler patch. 
The general style of coloration and appearance is that of V. icte- 
rophrys, Bon., but the size is smaller, the under parts more olivace- 
ous, and the stripes on the side of head so nearly obsolete as to be 
readily overlooked. The superciliary yellow line is, however, suffi- 
ciently conspicuous ; the infra-ocular yellow spot rather less distinct. 
The difference of locality is also important. 
For the opportunity of examining the species I am indebted to 
Dr. Sclater. 
smith-|Coliee-| Sex When 
sonian| tor’s | and Locality. Collected Received from Collected by 
No. No. | Age. 3 
4 272a | ss | Eastern Pern. me Cab. P. L. Sclater. Verreaux. 
Famity AMPELID2. 
The characteristics of the Ampelidx have already been presented 
in the synopsis of allied families ; chief among them the short broad 
depressed and triangular bill with short gonys, the deeply cleft 
mouth, the short tarsus, and the tendency to subdivision of its 
lateral plates. Whether Dulus belongs properly here or elsewhere 
is a serious question; it is at any rate the type of a subfamily, as 
also are Ampelis and Ptilogonys, if indeed they do not represent a 
still higher division. The solution of these questions must, however, 
be left to further investigation into the internal anatomy of the 
genera; for the present I retain all under Ampelidx. The characters 
of the subfamilies are as follows :— 
