BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMP:RICA. 



223 



hJ>. A supeiTiliarv stripe of vi'llow. ((Vntral ('()loinl)ia.) 



Vireolanius eximius (extralimital)« 

 na. Pileuni and hiudneck gray; rest uf upper parts olive-gruen; under parts white, 

 with chestnut across chest and along sides. (Southern Mexico to (iuatemala. ) 



Vireolanius melitophrys (p. 225) 



VIREOLANIUS PULCHELLUS PULCHELLUS Sclater and Salvin. 

 GREEN SHRIKE-VIREO. 



Adults {xexes alih)J' Pileum aiul hiiuliicck cerulean blue (more 

 vorditor l)]uo in worn plumao-e), tlu> center of crown iisuiilly somewhat 

 intermixed witli gTcen, occasionally with a wcll-detined patch of that 

 color; rest of upper parts, together with sides of head (including 

 superciliary region) and neck, bright ])arrot green; chin and tliroat 

 yellow (sulphur to lemon);'' rest of under parts light 3ellowish green 

 (apple green), deeper green on sides and Hanks; under wing-coverts, 

 axillars. and inner edge of remiges light ycdlow (sulphur to canar}^); 

 under tail-coverts greenish yellow; maxilla dusky (bluish gray in life?), 

 becoming ])lack terminally; mandible pale grayish (grayish l)lue or 

 l)luish gray in life?); legs and feet horn color (bluish gray or grayish 

 blue in life?); length (skins), 125-149 (132.(3); wing, To-TT (T2.9); tail, 

 48-5!> (51.1); exposed culmen, 15.5-19 (17.8); tarsus, 21-28 (21.9); 

 middle toe. 10-12 (11.(3).'^ 



Southern Mexico, in State of Vera Cruz (Mirador; Buena \'ista), and 

 highlands of Guatemala (Choctum; mountains of Rasche; Savana 

 (rrande: Volcan de Agua, above San Diego). 



Vireolanius pulcliellus Sclater and Saiain, 11)is, ser. i, i, Jan., 1859, 12 (Guate- 

 mala; coll. Brit. Mus.); Exotic Orn., pt. 1, 15, pi. 8.— Salvin, Ibis, 1861, 147 

 (mts. near Lanquin, Guatemala); 1878, 443, in text. — Sclater, Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, 45 (Choctum, Vera Paz, Guatemala). — Baird, Review Am. 

 Birds, 1866, 397, part (Mirador, Vera Cruz; Choctum, Guatemala). — Bou- 



« Viieolanius exbnias Baird, Review Am. Birds, ^Nlay, 1866, 398 (Bogota, Colombia; 

 coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. ); Sclater and Salvin, Exotic Orn., 1869, note topi. 8; 

 (iadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 316. — Vireolamm ictcropltriia (not of Bona- 

 I)arte) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 151, i^]. 103. 



'^ Among a series of fourteen specimens o/;/// one has the sex determined by the 

 collector, consecpiently I am unable to give separate measurements for the sexes, or 

 to state whetlier tliere is an average difference in brightness of coloration according 

 to sex. 



'"SometimeH tliere is a more or less distinct indication of a yellow rictal stri'ak. 

 One specimen, labeled "Central America," but witliout definite locality (no. 42597, 

 coll. U. S. Nat. i\Ius., received from J. G. Bell), is remarkable for having the green 

 entirely replaced by verditer blue and the yellow of throat and under wing-coverts 

 by white. Possi))ly it was preserved in alcohol before skinning. 



''Nine specimens, those from Mexico and Guatemala, respect ivi'Iy, coni])aring in 

 average measurements as follows: 



Locality. 



Tliree iiflults from >r('.\ic.i (N'cni Crii/ 1 

 Six adults from (.iiiatenialii 



Taraus. 



Middle 

 toe. 



•J-2. -.i 

 •il.7 



