210 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STJiTES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



[ Vireol pimllus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 381, no. 5756, ]»art. — Coies, Key N. 



Am. Birds, 1872, 124, part. 

 U[i>To] p^ts^Uus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 335, part. — Ridgway, 



Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 478, part. 

 Vireo jnisilhis alhatns Grinnell (J.), Condor, iii, Nov., 1901, 187 (Pasadena, Los 



Angeles Co., California; coll. J. Grinnell) ; Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 3, 



1902, 63. 



VIREO LATIMERI Baird. 

 LATIMER'S VIREO. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Pileum and hindneck plain grayish broAvn 

 (hair brown to broccoli brown), the auricular region and sides of neck 

 similar but paler; back, scapulars, rump, upper tail-coverts, and lesser 

 wing'-coverts plain brownish olive or olive-brown, in marked contrast 

 with the grajdsh brown of hindneck; wings (except lesser coverts) 

 and tail grayish brown with light olive-greenish edgings, some of the 

 greater wing-coverts with pale ^^ellow or olive-yellow tips, not, how- 

 ever, forming a distinct band; lores gra3Msh white or pale g'ray, be- 

 coming white, or nearly so, along upper margin and dusky at anterior 

 angle of eye; eyelids white; suborbital and malar regions pale gra}- 

 chin, throat, and upper chest dull white or grayish white; rest of 

 under parts very pale yellow (primrose) or yellowish white, deepen- 

 ing into straw yellow or maize j^ellow on sides and iianks; axillars 

 and under wing-coverts clear primrose yellow; inner webs of remiges 

 narrowly edged with white; maxilla brown, with paler tomia; mandi- 

 ble pale bro\^nish (in dried skins); legs and feet dusky in dried skins 

 (grayish blue in life?). 



Young {first plumage). — Pileum and hindneck Isabella color or 

 between that and broccoli brown; back, scapulars, rump, upper tail- 

 coverts, and lesser wing-coverts wood brown or deep Isabella color; 

 wings (except lesser coverts) and tail as in adults, but middle and 

 greater wing-coverts tipped with light cinnamon or dull buify, pro- 

 ducing two indistinct bands across wing; under parts white, changing 

 to pale olive-yellow on tlanks and under tail-coverts. 



Adult male.— IjQngth. (skins), 106-110 (107.6); wing, 56-57 (66.8); 

 tail, 45-48 (46.2): exposed culmen, 10.5-12 (11.4); tarsus, 19-19.5 

 (19.2); middle toe, 10-11 (10.7).« 



Adult female.— l^^ngth. (skins), 106-110 (109.4); wing, 57-58 (57.6); 

 tail, 44-47 (46.2); exposed culmen, 11-12 (11.3); tarsus, 19-20 (19.6); 

 middle toe, 10.5-11 (10.8).« 



Island of Porto Rico, Greater Antilles. 



Vireo latlmeri Baird, Review Am. Birds, May, 1866, 364 (Porto Rico, north side, 

 Greater Antilles; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. ). — Bryant, Proc. Best. Soc, x, 1866, 

 252. — GuNDLACH, Anal. Soo. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 135; Journ. fiirOrn., 

 1878, 158.— Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 304.— Cory, Auk, iii, 



« Five specimens. 



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