20 Description of New Species of Birds from 



The bird from Bahia is grayish-olive above, flammiilated with 

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

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

 sides and under wing covei-ts are brown, with transverse nari-ow 

 white bars ; the vipper 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 5|^ ; tail 2|- ; bill 2:^ to rictus; tarsi If. 



It is smaller in all its measurements than crepitans^ and has 

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

 shorter, the featliers of the hack 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. elegans, but are lighter; its smaller 

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

 species. 



The description of R. hmgirostris in Messrs. Sclater and 

 Salvin's Synopsis is evidentl}^ taken from United States speci- 

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

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

 sufhcient for it to assume the name of Jo7Hjirostris, it may then 

 bear that of crassirostris. 



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

 paper by request of Professor Baird. The description and 

 remarks are his, without alteratitm by me. 



Vireosylvia niag'li§iter, Baird, n. s. 

 Hahitat. Belize, Br. Honduras. 



Bill stout and lengthened. Wings considerably longer than the 

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

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

 the 2d and 4th a little shorter. No spurious primary. 



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 



