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7'. nitutlinvnsis, where the ciilmen is but little more than liiill' tlie head, to 

 that uf T. duinininnsis (tjenus Mclittanhux uf Ciihaiiis), where it is deciiUMlly 

 loiiLjjer tluiii the head, and alniust as st(jiit as that of Sumvitlunjns. 



Tlie Xortli Anieiican species of Tt/nninus (with their nearest Mexican 

 allies) may he arranged by colors, aceordin;j;ly as they are white beneatli or 

 vellow, in the followin<4 manner : — 



A. TikUt pai'ts wliiti-sli, without any. shn'Io of yellow. A faint urayish- 

 plunibeous pectoral liaml. 



1. T. carolinensis. Tail !>lij:htly i-onndcd. Hill much shditcr than the 

 head. Aliovc Mack, sliadinir into dark plunil icons on the l»ack. Tail 

 abruptly and broadly inaririncd and tipped with pure white. ( Tt/rumixs.) 

 Ilab. Whole of \orth America, north to the liritish Provinces, and 

 south to Panama. Rare in the We.-tern Province of Xorth Amt-rica. 



2. T. dominicensis. Tail moderately lorkctl. Pill longer than the 

 head. xVbove <,'ray ; the tail and winijs brownish. The t-dLn's and tips 

 of the tail narrowly martriiu'd with s(»iled white. (MehftmrliKS.) Ilab. 

 West Indies, New Granada, Panama, Florida, Georuria, and South 

 Carolina. 



B. Above ashy-olive, becomincr ptirer ash on the head. Tail brown or black. 

 Beneatli yellow ; the chin paler ; the breast stronirly shaded with olivaceous or 

 ashy. (Ldphi/rfes.) 



a. Tail nearly l)lack; the outer eilges of the outer webs of the leathers with 

 the fibres united closely throughout, and colored similarly to the rest ol" the 

 featlu-rs: beneath sulphur-yellow. 



3. T. verticalis. Tail sliLrhtly forked; external feather with the entire 

 outer web and the outer half of the shaft al)rnptly yellowish-white. 

 Pectoral band pale ashy, lighter than the back. JIab. Western Prov- 

 ince of United States. "1 



4. T. vociferaus. Tail nearly oven or slightly rounded ; external 

 ieatlu'r with the shaft l)rown ; the outer edge only of the outer web 

 obscurely yellowish-white, and all the feathers fading into paler at the 

 tii\ Throat and lircast broadly tinired with dark ashy-olive like the 

 back. I/ah. Plams and soutlu'rn Middle Province of United States, 

 south into Middle America. 



b. Tail brown, scared v darker than the wimrs; outer ediros of the outer 

 webs of the tail-feathers olivaceous like the Inick, in contrast with the 

 brown ; the libres loosened externally ; shafts of tail-feathers white beneath. 

 Beneath bright gambog»»-yellow. 



.'). T. melancholicus.* Tail quite deeply forked (.70 of an inch), 

 biH)wnish-black, tin' lighter edgings obsolete, and those on wings in- 

 distinct. Throat ashy. Hub. South America . . var. m el an cli ol 1 c u.^. 

 Tail moderately ft>rkeil (.30 of an inch), grayi.sl; " >wn, the light edges 

 conspicuous, as are also those of the wings. Throat white, //ivft, Midtlle 

 America, north to southern boundary of United States . . var. conriii . 



In the Birds of Xortli America a supposed new species, T. rovrlti, was 

 mentioned as coniinjjj so elose to the honndary line of the United States in 



1 Tiininnas DirhDichiiHoia, Vikii.Lot, Xonv. Diet, xxxv, 181{>, 84. — BAilin, Birds N. Am. 

 18.'»8, 17<). - ScLATi:i;, Catal. Am. lUnls, ISt'cJ, 2:3.'). Huh. StMitli .Vincriia. .\ more northoni 

 race scarcely distinguishable ^Pauania, Costa liica, etc.), separated as T. satni^i, LiciiT. 



