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BEVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



Blightly aslij on sides of breast. Flanks and inside of wings showing a faiut 

 trace of yellow, only appreciable on raising the wings. An obsolete linu from 

 bill to eye, and a more distinct ring round the eye, white. No bands ou the 

 wing, except a faint edging of whitish on the grjater coverts ; the quilLs edged 

 internally with white. Bill and legs plumbeous. "Iris brown. Mouth livid, 

 bluish-white." (Coues.) 



Fresh specimen: Total length, 5.60; expanse of wings, 8.60. Prepared 

 specimen: Total length, 5.10; wing, 2.5U; tail, 2.60, its graduation, .22; 

 difference of 10th and longest quills, .40; exposed portion of 1st primary, .85, 

 of 2d, 1.65, of longest (measured from exposed base of Ist primary), 1.95; 

 length of bill from forehead, .50, from nostril, .32, along gape, .61 ; depth of 

 bill, 18 ; tarsus, .72 ; middle toe and claw, .51, claw alone, .16 ; hind toe and 

 claw, .40, claw alone, .19. 



This species would at first sight be taken for a small speQJmen 

 of V. plumbea, the colors, character of bill, etc., being exactly simi- 

 lar, except that the white of lores and around eye is much less dis- 

 tinct, and there is only one faint band on wing, instead of two 

 conspicuous ones; the tail feathers, too, lack the distinct wliite 

 edgings. The much more rounded wing, and the first primary half 

 the second or more, will, however, readily distinguish them. Tlie 

 form of the bird is very much that of V. pusillus, which it resembles 

 also in color. The outer quill is, however, longer, the biH deeper 

 and more compressed, the inner lateral toe considerably shorter, ami 

 the size larger. The colors are purer, without the olive of the back 

 or the yellowish of the under parts ; the bill, too, is entirely dark 

 plumbeous, instead of horn color, whitish beneath. From V. pallens 

 it is distinguished by smaller, darker bill ; longer tail and wing; one 

 wing band, not two, and purer colors. 



Tlreo modestug. 



Vireo modestus, SctATER, P. Z. S. 1860, 462 (Jamaica); 1861, 72, pi. 

 xW, fig. 1.— In. Catal. 1861, 43, no. 259.— March, Pr. A. N. Sc. 

 1863, 294.— F. noveboracenais, Gosse, Birds Jam. IP'7, 192 (not 

 of Ombun). 



Sab. Jamaica. 



(No. 22,143, % .) The whole tipper parts are of a dull olive ftreen, withS 

 shade of brown, the sides of head and neck paler. Tlie quills and tail feathers 

 are brown; the 1st and 2d primaries very faintly edged with whitish, th« 



