20 Description of JSfew Sj^ecits of Birds from 



The bird from Bahia is gi-ayisli-oiive above, flaiamulate<i with 

 blackish-brown ; the under-plumage is light rufous, the throat white ; 

 a stripe of dull rufous extends from over the eye to the bill ; the 

 sides and under wing coverts are brown, with transverse narrow 

 white bars ; the upper mandible is brown on the ridge and at the 

 end, the remaining part and the lower mandible dark yellow ; feet 

 yellow. 



Length 12 in. ; wing b\\ tail 2^; bill 2^ to rictus; tarsi If. 



It is smaller in all its measurements than crejntans, and has 

 the bill fnlly twice as deep as in that species, the tarsi are 

 shorter, the feathers of the back are bordered with grayish- 

 olive instead of light bluish-cinereous, and the color below 

 of a clear light rufous instead of an ashy-fulvous ; the colors 

 are more like those of R. eleyans, but are lighter; its smaller 

 size, shorter and stouter bill, distinguishes it also from that 

 species. 



The description of li. longirostris in Messrs. Sclater and 

 Salvin's Synopsis is evidently taken from United States speci- 

 mens oi crepitans. I have seen no description at all applicable 

 to my Bahia specimen, and if the evidence is not considered 

 sufficient for it to assume the name of lo7igirostris, it may then 

 bear that of crassi?'ostris. 



The new species of Vireo, described below, is added to my 

 paper by request of Professor Baird. The description and 

 remarks are his, withont alteration by me. 



Vireosylvia iiiag'isiter, Baird, n. s. 

 Habitat. Belize, Br. Honduras. 



Bill stout and lengthened. Wings considerably longer than the 

 nearly even, though rather short and decidedly rounded tail ; the 1st 

 quill abovxt equal to the 6th, or very little longer ; the 3d longest ; 

 the 2d and 4th a little shorter. No spurious primar}'. 



Upper parts olive-green, brightest on rump and tail ; the head 

 above, and to a less degree the back, with a slight gloss of ashy, but 

 without forming a cap. Beneath dull olivaceous- white, the belly (and 



