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NEOCHLOE. 

 Neoehloe, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 213. (Type N. brevipennis, Scl.) 



Mr. Sclater proposed this genus for the peculiar South-Mexican species which at 

 present is its sole occupant. The form of the wings and tail are its chief distinguishing 

 characters. The former are very rounded, the second primary being much shorter than 

 the secondaries, and the third primary only about equalling them ; the tail is about the 

 same length as the wings, and also rounded. The bill is slender, but hardly more so 

 than in V. huttoni ; and the feet and legs resemble those of Vireo. The coloration is 

 peculiar, and quite different from that of any other member of the allied genera. 



1, Neoehloe brevipennis. (Tab. xiii. fig. 2.) 



Neoehloe brevipennis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 213 ' ; Baird, Eev. Am. B. i. p. 372 ' ; Suraichrast, Mem. 

 Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 547 '. 



Cinereus, dorso murino layato ; loris nigris, capite summo, alarum et oaudse marginibus oleagineo-viridibus ; 

 campterio alari flavo ; mento, abdomine medio et crisso albis ; rostro nigricante mandibulae basi cornea, 

 pedibus nigricanti-plumbeis. Long, tota 4-7, alae 2-15, caudse 2-1, rostri a rictu 5-5, tarsi 0-8. (Descr. 

 exempl. ex Jalapa, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 



Hob. Mexico, Orizaba (Bofteri^^, Sumichrast^), Jalapa {de Oca). 



This seems to be one of the rarest of Mexican birds, as at present we only know of 

 three specimens in collections. The type, which was obtained by Seiior Matteo Botteri 

 near Orizaba on the 8th October 1856, is now in the British Museum ; another is in the 

 national collection at Washington, and was also received from the same naturalist. 

 The third, which we now figure, is in our own collection, and formed part of a series 

 of bird-skins sent to this country some years ago by Don R. Montes de Oca, the well- 

 known naturalist of Jalapa. Prof. Sumichrast, who worked so long in the State of 

 Vera Cruz, never met with it himself, but includes it in his paper on the birds of that 

 State on Botteri's authority. Nothing whatever is recorded of its habits. 



HYLOPHILUS. 



HylopMlus, Temminck, PI. Col. sub tab. 173 (1833). Types H. thoracicus anA pmcilotis. 

 Pachysylvia, Bonaparte, Consp. Av. i. p. 309 (1850). Type Sylvicola decurtata, Bp. 



This genus contains about a score of species, all very similar in form, and differing 

 from one another by no very marked characters of colour. They are distributed 

 throughout Tropical America, from Southern Mexico to Brazil, none, however, being 

 found in the West-India Islands, except Trinidad and Tobago. North of the Isthmus 

 of Panama four species occur, all of which are found in the State of Panama itself, two 

 spreading thence to Southern Mexico. Guiana seems to be the metropolis of the 

 genus, where no less than six species have been discovered. 



