196 VIREONID&. 
adorned. The eggs when fresh have a roseate tint to the white ground-colour; and 
they are more or less boldly marked with blotches of dark roseate brown ©, 
d’. Remex spurtus obvius, oculorum ambitus et gula alba. 
10. Vireo solitarius. ~ 
Muscicapa solitaria, Wils. Am. Orn. ii. p. 148, t. 17. f. 67. 
Vireo solitarius, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1856, p. 298°; 1859, pp. 363°, 8754; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 31°; 
Dresser, Ibis, 1865, p. 481°; Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 2727; Coues, B. Col. Vall. 
i. p. 505°; Gundl. Orn. Cub. p. 56°. 
Vireosylvia solitaria, Baird, Rev. Am. B. i. p.347"°; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H.i. p. 548". 
Lanivireo solitaria, Baird, Brew. & Ridgw. N. Am. B. i. p. 873%; Lawr. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 
no. 4, p. 18”. 
Lanius solitarius, Licht. Preis-Verz. mex. Vég. p. 2™ (cf. J. Orn. 1863, p. 58). 
Vireosylvia propinqua, Baird, Rev. Am. B. i. p. 848" ? 
Supra flavo-olivaceus, pileo et capitis lateribus plumbeis; alis et cauda nigris albido limbatis, illis albido bifas- 
ciatis, striis a naribus oculorum ambitu conjunctis albis; subtus albus, hypochondriis flavis; rostro et 
pedibus plumbeis. Long. tota 5-0, ale 2°85, caude 2-0, rostri a rictu 0°65, tarsi 0°75. (Descr. maris ex 
Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Unirep Srarss generally and Canada’, Texas *.—Mextico (Deppe © 4, Sallé 2), 
Mazatlan (Grayson), Jalapa (de Oca*), Orizaba (Sumichrast 1°14, Botteri), 
Talea (Boucard *), Santa Efigenia, Tehuantepec, Gineta Mountains (Sumichrast 1°) ; 
GuateMALA, Coban®, Cahabon, Volcan de Fuego, Volcan de Agua (0. 8. & 
fF, D. G.).—Cusa®. 
A winter visitant to Mexico and Guatemala, beyond which latter country it does not 
appear to pass. Here, however, it is common in the mountainous parts at elevations 
varying from 7000 to 8000 feet in the great volcanoes of Agua and Fuego, to 4300 feet 
at Coban, and even to the low level of Cahabon, which lies at an elevation of less than 
1000 feet above the sea. In the neighbourhood of Coban it is very abundant, and is 
one of the birds that falls a prey to the blowpipes of the boys of the town, the outskirts 
of which it frequents. 
The occurrence of this species in Cuba is confined to a single instance, when 
Dr. Gundlach shot a specimen near Cardenas at the end of March 1844. 
In North America V. solitarius is very widely distributed; but in the more southern 
States it is known only as a bird of passage, though Dr. Coues thinks that some retire 
to the higher mountains of Colorado to breed. But its breeding-quarters lie chiefly to 
the north of the fortieth parallel of latitude 8. 
Brewer describes several nests taken in Massachusetts, which varied considerably in 
their structure, some being loose and others more compact, but all suspended to the 
twigs to which they were attached, as is usual with the members of this family of 
birds. The eggs, like those of other large Vireos, are pure white speckled with reddish, 
