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REVIEW OP AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[PAET I. 



(427.) The type of V. vchraeeus. (428,) The type of V. semiflavus. 

 No. 428. 



19,278.) Most like 



;13S08 



Vireo crassirontris, B.^yant. (Bahamas.) 



Tireo crassirostris. 



Laniiiireo cr. Bktant, Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. VII, 1859 (Bahamas). 

 Bab. Bahamas. 



(No. 13,508.) Upper parts grayish-olive, the edges of quills and tail- 

 feathers brighter olive green. Beneath pale yellowish, soiled slightly with 



ashy ; brightest on 

 sides and crissnm, 

 paler on middle of 

 belly ; flanks ting- 

 ed with olivaceous ; 

 qn'Us edged inter- 

 nally with white. 

 Two well - marked 

 bands on wings, and 

 broad outer edges 

 of inner secondaries 

 yellowish-white. A yellow band from nostril (meeting its fellow) to the eye, 

 and a narrow yellow ring around it. Bill dark plumbeous horn color, lighter 

 along edges. Feet dark plumbeous. 



Wings longer than the tail (2.40 to 2.10). The 1st or spurious primary 

 more than half the length of the 2d, which is shorter than the 9th primary, 

 and about equal to the secondaries (not shorter, as in V. gundlachi) ; the 4th, 

 5th, and 6th quills are longest, their tips reaching about .30 beyond the 

 secondaries. Tail slightly rounded, the feather* narrow and pointed. The 

 tarsi are long and stout (.85 of an inch), and measure one and a half times 

 as much as the middle toe and claw. The bill is unusually stout and large, 

 and the feet well developed. 



(No. 13,508.) Total length, 4.55 ; wing, 2.40 ; tail, 2.15 ; difference between 

 10th quill and longest, .30; exposed portion of 1st primary, .77, of 2d, 1.33, 

 of longest, 4th and 5th (measured from exposed base of 1st primary), 1.66; 

 length of bill from forehead, .58, from nostril, .35, along gape, .70 ; depth, .19 ; 

 tarsus, .85 ; middle toe and claw, .54, claw alone, .20 ; hind toe and claw, .50, 

 claw alone, .24. 



In some specimens the yellow of the forehead is much obscured. 

 The anterior corner of the eye is dusky. The cheeks are tinged 

 with olive green. The yellow of under parts is not uniform and con- 

 tinuous. The type of the species is not so bright in its colors as 

 specimens received subsequently from Nassau. 



