VIREOSYLVIA. 



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43641 



Vireosylvia philadelphica. 



12 (Guatemala). — Vireo philadelphiciis, Baird, Birds N. Am. 1S5S, 

 335, pL 78, fig. 3. 

 Vireosylvia cobanensis, Sclatek, P. Z. S. 1860, 463 (Coban). — Is. Ann. 

 Mag. N. H. 1861, 328. 



Hah. Eastern North America to Hudson's Bay and Maine, south to Costa 

 Rica and Guatemala. Not recorded from Mexico or West Indies. 



(No. 20,643, % .) Above dark olive green, tinged with plumbeous ash ex- 

 cept on the rump ; top of head and nape purer plumbeous ash, not edged with 

 dusky, the line of demarcation in- 

 distinct. Beneath light sulphur 

 yellow, paler and almost white on 

 chin and middle of abdomen ; sides 

 more olivaceous. A whitish stripe 

 from bill over eye, as also a patch 

 beneath it and the eyelids ; a dusky 

 loral and post-ocular spot. Quills 

 and rectrices brown, edged exter- 

 nally with olive, internally with 

 whitish ; the larger coverts with 



paler outer edges. Bill blackish, paler plumbeous below. Legs plumbeous. 

 Spurious outer or first quill (seen in gilva) wanting ; the outer about equal 

 to 5th ; 3d longest ; 2d and 4th not much shorter. 



(No. 20,643, % .) Total length, 4.80; wing, 2.65 ; tail, 2.25 ; difference be- 

 tween outer and longest primary, .28, of longest and innermost, .62; length 

 of bill from forehead, .54, from nostril, .30, along gape, .61 ; tarsus, .65 ; middle 

 toe and claw, .52 ; hind toe and claw, .44. 



Specimens vary somewhat in purity of tints, and especially in in- 

 tensity of yellow of under parts, which color is deeper in autumnal 

 skins. 



I regret that I led Mr. Sclater into an error by informing him that 

 the Vireo subsequently described by him as V. cobanensis was differ- 

 ent from V. philadelphica. The skin forwarded for examination by 

 him appeared to differ in some noticeable points, but those subse- 

 quently received from Mr. Salvin and other sources agree exactly 

 with specimens from Wisconsin and Hudson's Bay. 



(18,572.) Type of V. cobanensis. (33,300.) Iris brown. 



