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head, unspotted throat, and very short beak and tarsi. Its nearest 

 ally is C.jocosus, but its short bill will at once distinguish it from 

 that species. 



3. ViREO MODESTUS. 



Fireo noveboracensis, Gosse, B. of Jamaica, p. 192. 



Supra olivaceus ; alls caudaque nigricanti-ftiscis, illis alio bifas- 

 ciatis : fronts et superciliis Jlavicante vix tinetis : subtus pal- 

 lide Jlavicanti-albus : tectricibus subalaribus albis : rostra 

 superiore pallide cornea, inferiore albescente : pedibus plumbeis. 



Long, tota 4-5, alse 2*3, caudse 2-0. 



Hob. In ins. Jamaica. 



Obs. Similis Vireani noveboracensiy sed fronte aureo caret. 



This Greenlet appears to have been taken by Gosse for the Vireo 

 noveboracensis of the United States and Mexico, from which it may 

 be immediately distinguished by the absence of the golden-yellow 

 colour of the front and lores. It is also not so brightly coloured on 

 the sides of the belly. Mr. Gosse informs us that it is resident all 

 the year round in the island. One example of this bird in my pos- 

 session is from Mr. Gosse's original collection. A second has been 

 recently presented to me by J. II. Gurney, Esq., M.P., who received 

 it from Jamaica; and I have lately obtained a third. 



I was at first suspicious that this bird might be identical with 

 Cabanis's Vireo Gundlachii of the island of Cuba ; but having for- 

 warded one of my specimens to Dr. Hartlaub for comparison with 

 examples of the Cuban species in the Museum at Bremen, I have 

 ascertained through his kindness that such is not the case. In the 

 size of the first spurious primary and the general conformation of the 

 wings, Vireo modestus resembles V. noveboracensis. 



4. ViREOSYLVIA COBANENSIS. 



Vireosylvia philadelphica, Sclat. Ibis, 1859, p. 12 (nee America- 

 norum) . 



Supra olivaceus, pileo vix cinerascente induto : fronte, superciUis, 

 et regione aculari albicantibus, alis et caiida nigricantibus, oli- 

 vaceo extus anguste limbatis ; tectricum majorum apicibus 

 albescentioribus : subtus pallide fiavus, unicolor, mento albi- 

 cante ; hypochondriis olioacescentibus ; tectricibus subalaribus 

 pallide flavis : rostra plumb eo, pedibus nigro-schistaceis. 

 Long, tota 5*0, alse 2*5, caudse 1'7"), rostri a rictu 'bb, tarsi •/. 

 Hab. In Guatemala (Salvin), 



This Vireosylvia belongs to the section of the genus in which the 

 first primary is altogether absent. The second and third quills are 

 equal in length and longest, the fourth is very little shorter, and the 

 fifth nearly equals the first. The bill is smaller than in Vireo gilvus, 

 and somewhat like that of V. modestus and V. noveboracensis, though 

 more slender and more compressed. 



This Vireosylvia is quite distinct from any species of the genus 

 with which I am acquainted. I have hitherto referred it to V, phi- 



