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there were three eggs of tlie Yireo, and one of a Molothrus (obscztnis ?). The 

 former were of a bright crystalline whiteness, marked with very minute and 

 hardly discernible spots of red, and measure .69 by .56 of an inch. The 

 egg of the Molothrus, e.Kcept in its much smaller size, is hardly distin- 

 guishable from those of the common JL jxcorix, and measures .75 by .[i(> of 

 an inch. 



In the other nest were also three eggs of the Yireo. They correspond in 

 size, but are much more distinctly marked with larger spots of a dark red 

 and reddish-lirown. In this nest there is a somewhat larger proportion of 

 hne strijis of inner bark, and mixed with these are also a i'ew silky insect 

 cocoons, by means of \\-hich the nest is firmly bound around the twigs from 

 which the whole is suspended. 



Vireo vicinior, Couer. 



ARIZONA VIREO. 



Virco vicinior, CouEs, Pr. A. N. .Sc-. Pliilii. 1866. — B.\IUD, Rev. Am. B. 3G1. 

 lUust. Birds N. A. I, vii. — Coopee, Orn. Cal. I, 1870, 125. 



- Elliot, 



Sp. Cii.\r. (No. 40,G!)7 (J.) Bill stout, ooiL^iderably compre?sed and deep. Wings 

 moderately pointed, about equal to tail, which is decidedly graduated ; first quill rather more 

 than half the second, which about equals 

 ninth and the secondaries ; the fourth and 

 and fiflh longest. Tarsus considerably 

 longer than middle toe and claw ; lateral 

 toes quite conspicuous for their dispropor- 

 tion, the inner claw reaching only to base of 

 outer, and falling short of base of middle; 

 the terminal digit of inner toe reaching 

 only to end of second joint of middle toe. 



Upper parts, with sides of head and 

 neck, ashy or light plumbeous, faintly oli- 

 vaceous on rump. Beneath white ; slightly 

 ashy on sides of breast. Flanks and in- 

 side of wings showing a faint trace of yel- 

 low, only appreciable on i-aising the wings. 

 An obsolete line from Ijill to eye, and a 

 more distinct ring I'ound the eye, white. 

 No bands on the wing, except a faint edging of whitisli on the greater coverts ; the quills 

 edged internally with wdiite. Bill and legs plumbeous. " Iris brown. Mouth livid, 

 bluish-white." (Coues.) 



Fre.sh specimen : Total length, .5.00 ; expanse of wings, S.CiO. Prep.ired specimen : 

 Total length, .o.lO ; wing, 2..^0 ; tail, 2.60, its graduation, .22: difl'erence of tenth and 

 longest quills .40; exposed portion of first primary, .8.5, of second, 1.G5, of longest (meas- 

 ured from exposed base of first primary), 1.95 ; length of bill from forehead, .50, from 

 nostril, .32, along gape, .61; depth of liill, .18: tarsus, .72; middle toe and claw, .51, 

 claw alone, .16; hind toe and claw, .-10, cl.aw alone, .19. 



Hab. Prescott, Arizona. 

 50 



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V'lTto vicinior. 



