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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



Vireosylvia flavifrons. 



Viieo Jiuvifrons, Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. I, 1807, 85, pi. liv. — Acd. Om. 

 Biog. II, 1834, pi. 119.— Ib. Birds Am. IV, pi. 238.— Cassix, Pr. A. 

 N. Sc. 1851, 149.— ScLATER, P. Z. S. 1857, 227 (Vera Cruz) ; 1860, 

 257 (Orizaba). — Sclater & Salvin, Ibis, I, 1859, 12 (Guatemala). 

 — Cab. Jour. 111,468 (Cuba; winter). — Guxdlach, Cab. Jour. 1861, 

 324 (Cuba; rare).- Cab. Jour. 1860, 405 (Costa Rica).— FtVeo 

 {Lanivireo) /lav. Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 341. 



Muscicapa sylvicola, WiLS. Am. Om. II, 1810, 117, pi. vii, f. 3. 



Hab. Eastern United States, south to Costa Rica. Very rare in Cuba. 



(No. 28,390.) Head and neck above and on sides, with interscapular region, 

 bright olive green. Lower back, rump, tail, and wing coverts ashy. Wings 



brown, with two white bands 



yf ______^ across the coverts, the outer 



edges of inner secondaries, and 

 inner edges of all the quills, 

 with inside of wing white- 

 Outer primaries edged with 

 gray, the inner with olive. 

 Tail feathers brown, entirely 

 encircled by a narrow edge of 

 white. Under parts to middle 

 of body, a line from npstrils 

 over eye, eyelids and patch beneath the eye (bordered behind by the olive of 

 neck) bright gamboge yellow ; rest of under parts white, the flanks faintly 

 glossed with ashy. Lores dusky. Bill and legs plumbeous black. 



No spurious primary evident ; 2d quill longest ; 1st a little shorter than 3d. 

 Length, 5.80; wing, 3.00; tail, 2.00; diiference of longest and innermost 

 quills, .90; tarsus, .73. 



Autumnal birds, perhaps more especially the young,, are more 

 glossed with olivaceous, which invades the ashy portions, and tinges 

 the white. 



Vireosylvia ^lavi/rons, $ . (Carlisle, Pa 



