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REVIEW OP AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



base of quills, visible internally as a yellowish-white bar across the wing, 

 externally as a fulvous browu bar followed by a blackish one, and again a 

 fulvous. lu other words, the olive of upper parts is varied on the wings by 

 having the outer webs of quills, except outer primaries, fulvous olive, crossed 

 near the base by a broad blackish bar. Central tail feathers like back ; others 

 blackish ; outermost ashy for most of length, and like next, tipped with white. 

 Bill black ; the base below white. Lfgs flesh color? 



(No. 25,911, % .) Total length, 7.50 ; wing, 3.55 ; tail, 3.80 ; graduation of 

 tail, .25 ; diflFerence of 10th and longest quill, .66 ; exposed portion of Ist 

 primary, 1.00, of 2d, 2.15, of longest (5th) (measured from exposed base of 1st 

 primary), 2.60; length of bill from forehead, .56, from nostril, .31, along gap*", 

 .70 ; tarsus, .82 ; middle toe and claw, .78, claw alone, .26 ; hind toe and claw, 

 .62, claw alone, .26. 



Localitjr. 



When 

 Collected. 



Received from 



Cuba. 



Souna del Gate, 



" [Cuba. 

 It 



Monte liibaDOgCuba. 

 Cuba. 



Dec. 11. 

 Sept. 24. 



Ur. J (iiindluch. 

 Chas. Wrigbt. 



Cab. Lawrence. 



Collected by 



IHyiadestes melanops. 



Myiadestes melanops, Salvin, P. Z. S. 1864, 580, pi. zxxv (Tucurrique, 

 Costa Rica). 



Hab. Costa Rloa. 



(No. 30,501.) Wing moderately pointed; 1st quill about one-third the 

 longest ; 2d scarcely longer than 8th ; 4th and 5th longest. 



Above bluish-slate color; rather lighter below ; middle of belly somewhat 

 paler, t'orehead, cheeks anterior to eyes, and chin black ; axillnrs whitish 

 at ends, the bases of the quills showing the usual patch on the inner face of 

 wing, which in this species is white ; externally it is ashy, scarcely appre- 

 ciable, and followed by the usual dusky bar. Quill- and tail-feathers black- 

 ish, the central of the latter scarcely more ashy, as is the case in the terminal 

 portion of the outer two feathers and the outer edges of the outermost ; both 

 obscurely tipped with whitish. Bill reddish-yellow ; legs and feet clear 

 yellow. 



(No. 30,501.) Total length, 7.25; wing, 3.60; tail, 3.45, graduation, 40, 

 emargination slight ; difference of 10th and longest quills, .70 ; exposed 

 portion of Ist primary, .90, of 2d, 2.30, of longest (4th) (measured from ex- 

 posed base of 1st primary), 2.75 ; length of bill frotn forehead, .60, from 

 nostril, .30, along gape, .70 ; tarsus, .81 ; middle toe and claw, .79, claw alone, 

 .24 ; bind toe and claw, .58, claw alone, .28. 



In some specimens the pure clear bluish-plumbeous of bnrk is 

 faintly glossed behind with olive brown. Young birds have the bill 



