489 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
fi. Bill slender, its greatest depth less than half the distance 
from nostril to tip, or else’ width at base much greater 
than its depth, and tarsus with whole of outer side 
very distinctly scutellate. 
g. Tail even or emarginate, usually very much shorter 
than wing (the difference usually exceeding length 
Of tarSU8)*.......cceeseees Dendroica. (Page 492.) 
g. Tail more or less rounded or graduated (or else with 
basal two-thirds hidden by coverts), never very 
much shorter than wing (sometimes longer), the 
difference never exceeding length of tarsus. 
i’, Lower parts whitish, conspicuously streaked with 
grayish brown or dusky, above plain brown 
or dusky, the head sometimes striped. 
Seiurus. (Page 518.) 
i. Lower parts yellow or buffy, sometimes ashy, or 
mixed ashy and black, anteriorly ; above plain 
olive, olive-green, or grayish. 
@. Bill straight; above olive or olive-green, the 
head sometimes grayish. 
Geothlypis. (Page 520.) 
#, Bill decidedly curved ; above gray (the head 
yellowish olive-green in one species). 
Teretistris$ 
f?. Bill stout but much compressed, its greatest depth not less 
than half its length from nostril to tip; width at base 
not greater than depth; outer side of tarsus smooth 
or “booted” for upper half, at least. 
g. Wing 2.90, or more; above, including tail, olive or 
olive-green; beneath yellow for anterior, white 
for posterior, half; no white on tail-feathers. 
Icteria. (Page 526.) 
g. Wing less than 2.75; above plumbeous, the tail black, 
with much white on outer feathers; beneath red 
and white in males, whitish or buffy, tinged with 
Ted, in females..........ccseccecsesseseceeee Granatellus.! 
1 The single exception is “ Geothlypis” poliocephala Barrp. 
2 Notable exceptions to the last character are D. dominica (Linn.) and D. palmarum (GMEL.), one or both 
of which should in strictness be removed from Dendroica. 
5 Teretistris Caz., J. f. O. iii, 1855, 475. Type, Anabates fernandinz Lemp. (Only two species known, 
both peculiar to Cuba.) 
* Granatellus “Du Bus, Esq. Orn. (18507) sub tab. 24.” Type, G. venuetue Du Bus. 
Four very beautiful species of this genus occur in Mexico, as follows: (1) @. venuetue Du Bus, in Colima, 
Tehuantepec, ete.; (2) G. francesce Batrp, from Tres Marias; (3) G. sallei (Bonap.), from Cordova, etc. ; and 
(4) @. boucardi Ripew., from Yucatan. A fifth species, @. pelzelni Scx., is found in the Amazon Valley. 
