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the breast and sides. From a specimen in my collection shot at Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., Jul}^ 11, 1873. This bird has also two patches of bright 

 yellow on the breast. 



34. Perissoglossa tigrina. 

 First flumage : female. Remiges, rectrices, and primary coverts as in 

 adult. Pileum, nape, rump, and upper tail-coverts dark slaty-brown, 

 the back with an indistinct patch of olive-green. Eyelids, throat, jugu- 

 lum, and sides of breast dark slate ; abdomen, anal region, and crissum 

 solid white, tinged with dull yellow. From a specimen in my collection 

 shot at Upton, Me., August 21, 1874. This bird exhibits a few irregular 

 patches and isolated feathers of dull yellow on the breast and throat, fore- 

 runners of the fall plumage. 



35. Siurus auricapillus. 



"■First plumage. Remiges, rectrices, etc., as in the adult. Rest of 

 upper parts dull fulvous-brown ; the croion xoithout stripes, all the feathers 

 very indistinctly darker centrally ; lower parts paler, more buffy, fulvous, 

 growing gradually white toward the crissum, the buffy portions (breast 

 and sides), with very fine indistinct streaks of dusky. From a specimen 

 in my collection obtained near Washington." — R. R. 



36. Oporornis formosa. 



" First plumage. Remiges, rectrices, primary coverts, and alulse as in the 

 adult. Pileum and back dull raw-umber-brown, tinged with rusty on the 

 back and scapulars; throat, jugulum, breast, and sides pale grayish-fulvous, 

 the abdomen and crissum paler, and slightly tinged with yellow. No 

 markings of any sort about the head. My collection, Mt. Carmel, 111., 

 July 27, 1875." — R.R. 



37. Icteria virens. 



" First plumage. Remiges, rectrices, etc., as in the adult. Head, su- 

 periorly and laterally, uniform grayish-olive, with a barely appreciable 

 whitish supraloral line and orbital ring, and without black markings. 

 Whole throat pale ash-gray (almost white on the chin), stained laterally 

 and anteriorly with yellow ; entire breast gamboge-yellow, obscured with 

 olivaceous-gray across the jugulum (probably entirely gray at first, the 

 yellow feathers being probably the beginning of the first moult). Ab- 

 domen white ; flanks and crissum pale buff. In my collection from Mt. 

 Carmel, 111., July 19, 1875." — R. R. 



38. Myiodioctes canadensis. 



First plumage : female. Remiges, rectrices, etc., similar to the adults. 

 Rest of the upper parts, including wing-coverts and sides of head, uniform 

 deep dull cinnamon ; the greater coverts tipped with fulvous. Throat, 

 breast, and sides very light cinnamon, tinged with olive. Anal and ab- 

 dominal regions pale sulphur-yellow. No conspicuous spots, stripes, or 



