. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 2. HELJIIXTHOTHERrS. 229 head ; the sides are blackish cinereous; a circle of pure white sur- rounds the eye; a large roundish spot on the middle of the throat, the upper part of the breast, and the middle of the abdomen are dull white, somewhat mixed with blackish on the throat and with cinereous on the abdomen ; a very small spot on the chin and the tips of the feathers on the upper part of the throat are dull white ; the black on the upper part of the breast has the appearance of a broad band, separating the white of the throat from that of th
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 2. HELJIIXTHOTHERrS. 229 head ; the sides are blackish cinereous; a circle of pure white sur- rounds the eye; a large roundish spot on the middle of the throat, the upper part of the breast, and the middle of the abdomen are dull white, somewhat mixed with blackish on the throat and with cinereous on the abdomen ; a very small spot on the chin and the tips of the feathers on the upper part of the throat are dull white ; the black on the upper part of the breast has the appearance of a broad band, separating the white of the throat from that of the lower part of the breast; the under tail-coverts are cinereous black at base, ending largely with dull white ; wings and tail black ; the outer two tail-feathers have a small white spot, triangular in shape, on their inner webs at the end; bill black; tarsi and toes very pale yellowish brown, perhaps much lighter in the living bird, nails also pale. Length (fresh) 5| inches, wing 2|, taU 2|, tarsus |. (^Lawrence.) Sexes alike (Ober). Two specimens marked as females do not differ in plumage from the males. Length (fresh) 5| inches, wing 2^, taU 2|, tarsus ^. (LawreTice.) Young. Dark olive-brown above, lighter below, and where the white markings are in the adult it is of a pale dull rufous ; on the throat showing some white, and around the eye partially white; the marks on the end of the tail-feathers are precisely as in the black specimen; the quills are dark brown ; the tail-feathers are black. (Laiurence.) Hah. Island of S. Yincent, West Indies. 2. HELMINTHOTHERUS. Type. I Helmitheros, Rajin. Journ. de Phjs. Lsxxviii. p. 417 (1819) H. vermivorus. Vermivora, Swains. Phil. Mag. 2nd ser. i. p. 434 (1827). H. vermivorus. Helinaia, Aiulub. Sr/n. p. 66 (1839) H. swainsoni. Helmitherus, Bcdrcl, lievieiv Amer. B. p. 179 (1865). Helmintherus, Coues, B. Color. Vail. p. 211 (1878). Helonsea, Neivfon, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 552. Helminthotherus, Salvin ^- Godman, Biol, , Aves, i.
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