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Young {1)1 Jirst autumn and \vinter). — Similar to adults, but without 

 black or clear gray on head, which is replaced b}" grayish brown or 

 brownish gray; olive-green of back, etc., browner; white of under 

 parts and head markings much less pure, strongly washed with pale 

 buff or brownish buff, the sides and flanks more brownish oliv^e-green. 



Adult male.—l^QTigth (skins), 100-112 (KM. 5); wing, 54-57 (55.8); 

 tail, 40-46 (43.8); exposed culmen, 9; tarsus, I'J; middle toe, 10.^' 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 104; wing, 55; tail, 43.5; exposed 

 culmen, 9; tarsus, 18.5; middle toe, 10.^ 



Southwestern Kansas (Comanche County) southward through Okla- 

 homa and west-central Texas (eastward to Cooke, Comanche, Comal, 

 Bexar, and Medina counties); southward in winter to Mexico, as far 

 as State of Sinaloa (Mazatlan). 



Vireo atricapilla Woodhouse, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, 1852, 60 (San Pedro 

 R., w. Texas; type in coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. ); in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. 

 ZuniandCol. R., 1853, 75, pi. 1 (San Pedro R.).— Baird, in Stansbury's 

 Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 328 (Texas). 



Vireo atricapillus Cassin, lUustr. Birds Tex., Cal., etc., 1854, 153, pi. 24. — Baird, 

 Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 337; Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., 

 ii, pt. ii, 1859, 12 (San Pedro R., Texas); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 427; 

 Review Am. Birds, 1866, 353 (San Pedro R. and El Paso, Texas). — Cooper, 

 Orn. Cal., 1870, 121 (Texas).— Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 133; 2d ed., 

 1882, no. 185; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 533; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 

 193, pi. 1 (New Braunfels, Comal Co., Texas, breeding). — Lawrence, Mem. 

 Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 272 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa). — Baird, Brewer, and 

 RiDGWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 383, pi. 17, fig. 6 (w. Texas; Mazat- 

 lan).— Deane, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 58 (Camp Verde, Medina 

 Co., and Comanche Co., n. e. part Erath Co., and Cooke Co., Texas, breed- 

 ing). — Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 99-103 (history, nesting 

 habits, descr. nest and eggs). — Ragsdale, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 

 239 (Cooke Co., Texas, breeding; remarks on plumage of sexes and young). — 

 Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 142. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881, 199 (Mazatlan).— Brown, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 

 1882, 37 (Boerne, s. w. Texas, Mar. 27).— Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 viii, 1883, 300. — Goss, Auk, ii, 1885, 274 (Comanche Co., s. w. Kansas, 

 breeding; habits, descr. nest, measurements, etc.); iii, 1886, 114, 115 (Kan- 

 sas); Hist. Birds Kansas, 1891, 531 (s. Kansas, summer res.). — American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 630. — Lloyd, Auk, iv, 1887, 

 295 (Concho and Tom Green counties, Texas, breeding; habits; song; 

 descr. nest and eggs). — Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 236 (Bandera 

 Co., San Angelo, etc., Texas; Comanche Co., Kansas; dates).- — Attw.\ter, 

 Auk, ix, 1892, 340 (near San Antonio, Texas, breeding). — Nehrling, Our 

 Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 306.— Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds 

 W. U. S., 1902, 397, fig. 492. 



[FtVeo] atricapillus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 380, no. 5753. — Coues, Key N. Am. 

 Birds, 1872, 124. 



V[ireo] atricapillus CovF^s, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 336. — Ridgway, Man. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1887, 474. 



"Eight specimens. &One specimen. 



