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"with trace of a notch at tip. Rictus ivith fairly developed hristles * 

 extending nearly or quite to nostrils, here differing from any other 

 species of the genus. Eyes, dark brown ; tarsi and toes, pale brown- 

 ish ; claws, paler. Dimensions: Length, 4.75; wing, 2.50; tail, 

 1.85 ; culmen, .44, from nostril, .34 ; tarsus, .70. 



The discovery of additional specimens may modify the above de- 

 scription somewhat, for, as Dr. Coues suggests to me, the concealed 

 black of vertex would seem to indicate that this specimen had not 

 quite attained its full spring dress. 



The species is described from a single specimen, taken by the 

 ■writer at ]\Iadisonville, Hamilton County, Ohio, on May 1, 1880. 

 It has been submitted to Dr. Elliott Coues for examination, and by 

 him, in company with Messrs. Ridgway and Henshaw, pronounced 

 to be undoubtedly new. Its relations, accoi'ding to Dr. Coues, are 

 mainly with Hehnintho'pliaga jmms, although in the concealed black 

 of vertex and ai;riculars it slightly resembles certain plumages of 

 Oporornis formosa. From H. 2nnus, its nearest ally, it differs in its 

 decidedly larger size, the presence of rictal bristles, the concealed 

 black of vertex, and the black auriculars ; negatively, in the total 

 absence of white wing-bars, white tail blotches, and ashy blue on 

 wings and tail. With 0. formosa it seems hardly necessary to com- 

 pare it ; its smaller size, dissimilar proportions, short tarsi, yellow 

 forehead, and white margin to outer tail feathers, sufficiently distin- 

 guish it from that species. A suspicion of hybridism between the 

 two genera is, in the present state of our knowledge, inadmissible. 



Of its habits nothing is known, except that it was shot while 

 searching for insects at the end of a maple limb about fifty feet from 

 the ground. 



It is a little remarkable that this should be the third new species 

 of this genus announced from the Eastern United States during the 

 past six years ; t such, however, is the fact, and in all three instances 



* The presence of this character would by some authors be deemed sufficient 

 reason for the institution of a new genus or sub-genus, but this, it seems to me, 

 would be unnecessary and inadvisable. 



t The other two are as follows : Helmintlioi^liaga laiorencei, Hen-ick. — Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. of Phila., 1874, p. 220, pi. xv. Locality, New Jersey ; two 

 specimens now known. Helmintliophacja leucohronchialis, Brewster. — Bulletin 

 Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1876, Vol. I, No. 1, p. 1, pi. 1. Locality, New- 

 tonville, Mass. Four others now known, — one from Penn., two from Conn., 

 and one from an unknown locality. [Eight others now known, including two 

 from Massachusetts, four from Connecticut, two from New York, and one from 

 Michigan. — Eds. Bulletin.] 



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