. Review of American birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Instution. [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. mmM. \t,,;'i.,- â¢tl ,i| A ' ii. >i â âr- i! â â¢- ." ~ ^â â â U9 REVIEW OP AMERICAN BIRDS. [part I. Bcarotily extending over occiput. Wing nearly as long as middle tail feather . i . mesochrysus. Cheeks, ocular region, and lores chestnut. A superciliary stripe bright yellow, bordered above by dusky. Whole under parts yellow .... belli. Basileuterus melanogenys. Basileuterus melanogenys, Baird, n. 8. Hab. High-lands of Costa Rica. (No. 30,497.) Above ashy olive, the quills and tail feath
. Review of American birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Instution. [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. mmM. \t,,;'i.,- â¢tl ,i| A ' ii. >i â âr- i! â â¢- ." ~ ^â â â U9 REVIEW OP AMERICAN BIRDS. [part I. Bcarotily extending over occiput. Wing nearly as long as middle tail feather . i . mesochrysus. Cheeks, ocular region, and lores chestnut. A superciliary stripe bright yellow, bordered above by dusky. Whole under parts yellow .... belli. Basileuterus melanogenys. Basileuterus melanogenys, Baird, n. 8. Hab. High-lands of Costa Rica. (No. 30,497.) Above ashy olive, the quills and tail feathers edged with brighter, edges of the latter slightly tinged with rufous. A square patch of chestnut brown on top of head. The sidas of head black, encircling the eyes, each feather white in the centre. A broad stripe of white frooi base of bill passing over the eye, and margined above by black, which thus I orders the rufous crown externally. The forehead mixed black and white. Beneath dull whitish, the sides and to some extent the breast, tinged with olivrceons ash ; the chin dusky on account of the blackish tips of the feathers. The white feathers about the head have all a tendency to black tips and edges, producing the black markingsâvery few feathers being entirely black. The wings are a little shorter than the tail. The bill is more slender, and the culmen less decurved than in most species of its section. Total length, ; wing, ; tail, ; graduation of tail, .35; diflfer- «nce between 1st and 4th quills, .40 ; length of bill from forehead, .50, from nostril, .30; along gape, .58 ; tarsus, .85. Sralth- â ODiau No. Collec- tor's No. Sex and A(fe. Locality. When Collected. Received from Collected by 30,497 30,498 117 118 Juv. Coata Kica (Sun " [JoKe?). ... Di'. V. Fraatzius. 1. (30,497.) Type of species. Basileuterus rufifrons. Setophaga rufifrons, Swainson, Animals in Menageries, 1838, 294.âBom. Conspectus, 314.âBasileuterus rufifrons, Bon.
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