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in the large single opening, forming the anterior passage from the 

 orbit above the mesethmoid, in the shape of the transpalatines in 

 which the outer margin curls upward as a scroll, and in the form 

 and position of the foramina of the occipital veins. 



From the other genera of vireos Lawrencia differs extremely in 

 the broad, depressed, triangular bill the width of which at the 

 frontal antiae is more than twice the depth at this point. The elon- 

 gated, slender tarsus is also striking. In the skull the face is dis- 

 tinctly broader, the lower margin of the lachrymals extending out- 

 ward only to the inner margin of the zygoma, and the outer margin 

 of the processus maxillaris of the premaxilla being distinctly convex. 



It is easily apparent that Lawrencia is a somewhat peculiar mem- 

 ber of the Vireonidae. 



The flat-billed vireo is from 125 to 135 mm. long with slender 

 form and long tail. Above it is greenish olive gray, with whitish 

 lores and a whitish ring around the eye. The wings are dusky, the 

 feathers being margined faintly with whitish, with a broad band of 

 white across the ends of the primary coverts. Below the bird is 

 white or light yellow. 



Family COEREBIDAE 

 Subfamily Coerebinae 



COEREBA BANANIVORA BANANIVORA (Gmelin) 



HISPANIOLAN HONEY-CREEPER, SIGTTITA, STJCRIER, BANANISTE, PETIT 



SERIN, BANANE MURE 



Motacilla bananivora Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 951 ("insulae 

 S. Dominici "=Hispaniola). 



Bananiste, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vol. 5, 1778, pp. 332-334 (description). 



Sucrier (part), Montbett,t,ari>, in Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vol. 5, 1778, pp. 543, 

 545 ( " Saint-Domingue " ) . 



Certhiola, Haetlaub, Isis, 1847, p. 609 (listed). — Sallf,, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1857, p. 233 (listed). 



Cert Ma flavcola, Bitter, Naturh. Reis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1836, p. 155 

 (specimen). 



Certhiola Clusiae " Wiirttemberg " Hartlaub, Naumannia, 1852, p. 56 

 (Haiti). 



Certhiola cluciae, Cory, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, 1881, p. 151 (locally 

 abundant). 



Certhiola bananivora, Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May, 

 1867, p. 95 (Dominican Republic, Haiti). — Cory, Birds Haiti and San Domingo, 

 March, 1884, pp. 41^3, col. fig. (description of nest; Puerto Plata, Saman&, 

 PStionville, specimens). — Tippenhatjer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, p. 321 (listed). — 

 Tristram, Cat. Coll. Birds belonging H. B. Tristram, 1889, p. 218 (Saman&, 

 Rivas, specimens). — Christy, Ibis, 1897, p. 321 (Sanchez, description of 

 tongue). — CrFERRi, Seg. Inf. An. Est. Nac. Agr. Moca, 1927, p. 6 (listed). 



Coereba bananivora, Cory, Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 116 (Haiti, 

 Dominican Republic) . — Cherrie, Field Col. Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 1896, p. 12 



