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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



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Entirbly lustrous blank, including head and neck. 

 No vertex spot. A wliite patch on the wings. 

 Setophaga. 



Forehead h' ;k. A broad band on the wings 

 and almost the whole of outer tail feather 



white picta, Sw. 



Forehead white. A narrow band on the wings 



and tips only of lateral tail feathers white multicolor, Bp. 

 Plumbeous ash, including head and neck. A chest- 

 nut brown vertex-spot. No white on wings. 

 Mi/ioborus. 



Throat, lores, and forehead continuously pare 

 black. Spoton vertex uniform dark chest- 

 nut, scarcely margined on the sides with 

 black. Inner web of outer tail feather 

 white for terminal two-fifths ; 3d feather 

 with a distinct white tip. Tail, 3.00 . miniata, Sw. 

 Black of head somewhat tinged with plumbe- 

 ous ; a distinct band of this color extend- 

 ing from bill over the eye, cutting off 

 the black of forehead. Spot on vertex 

 orange chestnut, lighter at base, and 

 quite broadly margined with blackish. 

 White on outer tail feather restricted to 

 terminal third ; 3d feather with a small 

 white tip or none. Tail, 2.75 . . flammea, Katip 

 Beneath clear yellow, or with a tinge of orange. Crissum 

 whitish. Vertex with an orange brown spot (except 

 in melanocephala). Above plumbeous ash. Winga 

 and tail black. Myiohorus. 



Head and neck all round like the back. 



Breast and belly gamboge yellow. Forehead 

 and sides of vertex plumbeous. Outer 

 tail feather white for more than terminal 



third verticalis, Lafr. 



Breast and belly yellowish-orange. Forehead 

 and sides of vertex black. Outer tail 

 feather with less than terminal half white aurantiaca, Baird. 

 Head and neck above like the back. Whole under 

 parts yellow ; base of bill above yellow (except 

 in brunneiceps). A dusky loral spot. No pec- 

 toral collar, 



A cinnamon vertex spot encircled by black, 

 extending below and upwards into the 

 eye to the gape. A dusky loral spot. 

 Circum-ocular region, and line to bill 





