vil MNIOTILTIDAE |. SO 
nest, made of grass, moss, roots, and fibres, occasionally has a 
projecting porch, and is 
frequently lined with down 
or feathers; the two to 
four eggs being white or 
ereenish-blue, with dull-red 
or yellowish-brown blotches 
or specks. In the Antilles 
Certhiola weaves a domed 
structure of similar mate- 
rials, hair, and spiders’ Fic. 188.—Sugar-bird. Certhiola flaveola. 
webs, between the outer- <a 
most twigs of bushes. Many nests are built without being used. 
The coloration varies from black, grey, or purplish, relieved 
by rufous and white, to brilliant blue, purple, or green, with the 
quills only black, or with further yellow, chestnut, and excep- 
tionally scarlet, decorations. Uniform black, or olive and brown 
hues are unusual, save in females, which, however, are often 
bright green, with the addition of a little blue or yellow. 
Fam. XXXII. Mniotiltidae—The “American Warblers,” 
almost replacing the Sy/viinae in the New World, are a somewhat 
heterogeneous assemblage of rather small birds, of which Granda- 
tellus is perhaps Tanagrine. They frequent localities of all de- 
scriptions in North and South America, being commonest in the 
middle portions.  Zeretistris is peculiar to Cuba, Leucopeza to St. 
Lucia and St. Vincent; #rgaticus occupies the Central American 
highlands, while two or three species wander to Greenland. 
The bill is usually slender and straight, but varies in length 
and curvature, that of Sefophaga and Myiodioctes being broad and 
depressed with bristly gape, that of Jcteria (doubtfully referred 
here) very stout and compressed, and so forth. Other species also 
exhibit bristles, or have notched beaks. The tongue is frequently 
bifid and fringed in Dendroeca, and in D. (Perissoglossa) tigrina 
is semitubular. The metatarsi are naturally longest and strongest 
in the more terrestrial forms, such as Geothlypis and Siurus; Icteria 
has partly feathered legs, Mnzoti/ta particularly long toes. The 
wings may be concave and roundish, as in Leucopeza and Geoth- 
lypis, or elongated and pointed, as in Protonotaria and Peuce- 
dramus ; the moderate tail is square, rounded, or emarginate, or, 
as In Setophaga, broad and graduated, The general coloration is 
