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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



yellow. Vertex with the feathers considerably elongated, and orange brown, 

 margined all round with black. Quills and tail feathers black,-not appreciably 

 margined. Outer tail feather with all the exposed portion white ; less of this 

 color on the second, with a margin of black on the outer web near the end ; 

 third feather with a small stripe of white in the end. Tibia greenish plum- 

 beous. 



In one specimen the forehead only (except the narrow line at base of bill) 

 is black, and the black line above the superciliary yellow is quite narrow ; in 

 another, the decumbent brown crest is mainly on the sinciput, the black 

 anterior and lateral to it being in considerably less extent. An immature speci- 

 men, not fully fledged, probably of this species, lacks the spot on the vertex ; 

 the whole jugulum is dusky, this color extending forward along the throat to 

 the bill ; the lores and a cresoentic patch beneath the eye are dusky. 



Length, 5.50 ; wing, 2.75 ; tail, 2.85 ; bill from gape, .56 ; tarsus, .80. 



The clear yellow face without any dusky marks, and the yellow- 

 under parts crossed by a dusky pectoral collar, appear to distinguish 

 this species from all its congeners. 



EuTHLYPis, Cabanis. (See page 23*7.) 



EutMypis, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1850, 18. (Type E. lachrymosa, Cab.) 



Bill much depressed, and lengthened ; fiom forehead as long as the head, 

 the lateral outline rather concave near the end. Rictal bristles reaching half 

 way from nostrils to tip of bill. Culmen and commissure gently curved. Tail 

 rounded, and a little longer than the wings, the feathers moderately broad. 

 Wings rounded ; 1st quill about equal to the 6th ; 3d and 4th longest. Pro- 

 portions of feet about as in the rufous crowned Jlyioborus. 



This subgenus, besides its relations to Setophaga, has characters 

 belonging both to Myiohorus and Myiodioctes. The tail feathers 

 have the firmness and comparative narrowness of outer web of the 

 latter, the feet aud rounded wings of the former. The bill is more 

 lengthened than in either. 



But a single species of this subgenus is known. It is the largest 

 of the Setophagess : yellow beneath, plumbeous above, with two dark 

 stripes on the head inclosing a median yellow one. 



