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Sp. 2. Vi. nigerrimus. 



Vi. nigerrimus tectricibus minoribus alarum albissimis (mas.); 



aid, toto rufo-brunneus (foemina.) 

 Black Vireo with the lesser wing-coverts pure white, male ; or, 



entirely red-brown, female. 

 Tanagra nigerrima. Desmar. Tanag. et Pip. pi. 45. 46. 



Inhabits Guiana and Cayenne. Length about 

 six inches : the male has the feathers of the head and 

 body of a very brilliant black, with the greater quills, 

 the wings, and tail, dull black ; and the lesser and 

 under wing-coverts pure white : the beak and the 

 legs are black. The female is rather less than the 

 male : the plumage is of a chesnut-red, palest be- 

 neath : the inner part of the wing-quills is black- 

 brown. 



Said to subsist on fruits as well as insects. 



Sp. 3. Vi. olivaceus. 



Tanagra olivacea. Steph. v. x. p. 457. — Muscicapa olivacea? 

 Steph. v. x. p. 379.— America. 

 Sp. 4. Vi. musicus. Vieil. Ois. d'Amer. Sept. i. p. 83. pi. 52. 



Muscicapa Noveborascensis. Steph. v. x. p. 366. — North Ame- 

 rica. 



Sp. 5. Vi. flavifrons. Vieil. Ois. d'Amer. Sept. i. pi. 54. 



Vi. corpore supra et capite flavo-viridibus ; fronte, orbitis, giddy 

 pectore, ventroque Jlavis ; crisso tectricibus alarum apice, rec- 

 tricibusque externis pogoniis exterioribus albis. 



Vireo with the body above and the head yellow-green ; the fore- 

 head, orbits, throat, breast, and belly yellow ; the vent, tips of 

 the wing-coverts, and outer web of the exterior taiL-feathers 

 white. 



Yellow-fronted Warbler. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. vii. p. 208. 



Inhabits North America. Length four inches 

 eight lines : beak red : legs black : general colour of 



