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MR. H. N. RIDLEY ON THE 
Fam. YiREONiDiE. 
1. VlREO GRACILIROSTRIS, Sp. n. 
V. similis V. magistro,Qt forsan proximus, sed forma graciliore, 
coloribus dilutioribus, facie laterali pallide flavicante, et rostro 
valde tenuiore et graciliore distinguendus. Long. tot. 5‘7, culmin. 
0 - 6, alae 2‘5, caudae 225, tarsi 0‘8. 
Five specimens were procured, and after comparing them with 
the series of Vireoniclce in the British Museum, there is no doubt 
that the Fernando Noronha bird comes nearest to V. magister, 
of which species the Museum lias now a large series from the 
islands of the Bay of Honduras, presented by Messrs. Salviu and 
Bill of V. gracilirostris. Bill of V. magister. 
Gfodman. The yellow face and the slender bill distinguish it at 
a glance from V. magister. 
Fam. Tyrannid.e. 
2. Elainea Bidleyana. 
Elainea Ridleyana, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 107. 
This species has been fully described by me ( l . c.). Dr. Sclater 
(Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 139) does not consider it to be very 
different from JE. pagana, but the size of the bill is very marked 
in the insular birds. 
[This bird occurred only on the main island and Bat Island as 
far as we saw, and was very common in the gardens and in the 
woods. We saw only a few nests, and of these only one was 
finished and contained an egg, which was destroyed in an attempt 
to reach the nest. The egg was white with dark red spots. 
The nest, which was about three inches across, was made of the 
tendrils of Cucurbitaceae and a few fine twigs, but lined thickly 
(and in fact almost entirely constructed in soiUe cases) with the 
woolly down of the seeds of Gonololus micranthus. It was 
placed often in the bare branches of a Burra or Ergthrina tree, 
or in a C'ashewnut-tree. — H. N. i?.] 
