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yellow. Vertex with the featbere considerably elongated, and orange brown, 

 uicrgined all round with black. Quills and tail feathers black, not appreciably 

 xuarpined. Outer tail feather with all the exposed portion white ; less of this 

 color on the second, with a margin of black on the outer web near the end; 

 third feather with a small stripe of white in the end. Tibia gre -iish plum- 

 beous. 



In one specimen the forehead only (except the narrow line at base of bill) 

 is black, and the black line above the superciliary yellow is quite narrow ; in 

 another, the decumbent brown crest is mainly on the sinciput, the black 

 anterior and lateral to it being in considerably less extent. An immature .speci- 

 men, not fully fledged, probably of this species, lacks the spot on the vertex ; 

 the whole jugulum is dusky, this color extending forward along the throat tj 

 the bill ; the lores and a crescentio patch beneath the eye are dusky. 



Length, 5.50 ; ^ing, 2.75 ; tail, 2.85 ; bixl from gape, .56 ; tarsus, .80. 



The clear yellow face without any dusky marks, and the yellow 

 under parts crossed by a dusky pectoral collar, appear to distinguish 

 this species from all its congeners. 



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EuTHLYPis, Cabanis. (See page 23t.) 



Euthlypis, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1850, 18. (Type E. laclirymosa, Cab.) 



Bill much depressed, and lengthened ; from forehead as long as the head, 

 the lateral outline rather concave near the end. Rictal bristles reaching half 

 way from nostrils to tip of bill. Culmen and commissure gently carved. Tail 

 rounded, and a little longer than the wings, the feathers moc'erately broad. 

 Wings rounded ; 1st quill about equal to the 6th ; 3d and 4th longest. Pro- 

 portions cf feet about as in the rufouo ^.0"'ned Myioborus. 



This subgenus, besides its relations to Setophaga, has characters 

 belonging both to Myioborus and Myiodioctes. The tail feathers 

 have the firmness and comparative narrowness of outer web of tlie 

 latter, the feet and rounded wings of the former. The bill is more 

 lengthened than in either. 



But a single species of this subgenus is known. It is the largest 

 of the SetophageiPi : yellow beneath, plumbeous above, with two dark 

 stripes on the head i'lclosing a median yellow one 



