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gamboge-jellow below; with ashy auriculars and yellowish forehead and 

 superciliary stripe. 



Adult male (type No. 107,876, U. S. Nat. Mus., Eleuthera I., Bahamas, 

 March 12, i886; Chas. H. Townsend) : Above bright olive-green, very 

 slightly tinged with ashy on top of head ; lower parts, including flanks, 

 entirely rich gamboge-yellow; forehead (back to about .35 from nostril), 

 lores, orbital region, malar region, and auriculars, uniform deep black, 

 bordered posteriorly by gamboge-yellow (less distinct across crown) ; bill 

 blackish, paler along tomia, and at base of lower mandible; legs and 

 feet light brown; wing, 2.60; tail, 2.50; culmen, .75; hill from nostril, 

 45; depth of bill at base, .20; width, .20: tarsus, 90. 



Adult female (No. 107,875,11. S.Nat. Mus., same locality and date; 

 J. E. Benedict) : Similar to the male, except in color of the head, which 

 lacksentirely any black, the forehead, cheeks, and superciliary region being 

 olive-yellowish, lores gi-ayish, and auriculars ashy ; Hanks and under tail- 

 coverts rather paler and more olivaceous-yellow than in tlie male. Wing, 

 2.45; tail, 2.50; culmen, .75; bill from nostril, .45, depth at base, .20. 

 width, .iS; tarsus, .87. 



This species is inuch more strongly marked than G. i-os- 

 trattis Bryant (from New Providence), from wliich it difiers in 

 many very prononnccd cliaracters. The color hordeiing- the hinder 

 edge of the black ' mask' is not light ashy, as in that species, bnt 

 gamboge-yellow, as in G. hcJdhigi^ nobis (from Lower Cali- 

 fornia). The yellow of the lower parts is mnch more intense, 

 being, even on the flanks (which are pale grayish-yellow in ros- 

 tratzis)^ as bright as on the breast in rostrattis. The lower man- 

 dible (in both sexes) is blackish, instead of pale brownish, and 

 the bill has a very different shape, being much more curved, 

 more compressed terminally, and the culmen forming an elevated, 

 almost knife-like ridge, as in Helinaia szvainsoiii. The female 

 is many shades richer in coloration than that of G. rostrattis, 

 which in plumage resembles rather closely the same sex of G. 

 trichas occidentaUs Brewst. 



Two adidt males and one adult female in the collection. 



I take pleasure in naming this fine new species after Mr. 

 Charles B. Cory, author of ' Birds of the Bahama Islands,' and 

 other well-known ornithological works. 



2. Geothlypis tanneri, sp. nov. 



Sp. Char. — Similar to G. coryi, but bill more robust and straighter, 

 black of forehead more extended, yellow posterior border to 'mask' paler 

 and changing to yellowisli-gray across crown, olive-green of upper parts 

 much duller, and j'ellovv of lower parts less intense. 



