BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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pale g"i"ay; maxilla dusky with paler toniia; niandiblc paler (grayish 

 blue or l>luish gray in life); iris l)rown; legs and feet dusky in dried 

 skins, grayish blue or l)luish gray in life. 



Yoiuig. — Texture of plnnvage looser and nuu-li softer than in adults; 

 coloration similar, but the gray of upper parts slighth' more brownish, 

 white of under parts purer, and pale edgings to remiges and rectrices 

 and tips of greater coverts tinged with pale olive. 



Adult ///(/A.— Length (skins), lL>0-12!) (125.2); wing, ♦i2-07 (()4.cS); 

 tail, 58-61 (58.5); exposed cuhnen, 9-10 (!».4); tarsus, 18.5-20 (19.1); 

 middle toe, 10-10.5 (10.1)." 



Adult female. -'Ij^ngth. (skins). 120-125 (122.1); wing, ♦il-04 (♦>2.5); 

 tail, 55-59 (57. 2); exposed culmen, 9-11 (9.8); tarsus 18.5-20 (19.1); 

 middle toe, 10-11 (10.0).'' 



Southern California, in San Bernardino, Riverside, and San Diego 

 counties, southern Nevada (Grapevine Mountains), Arizona and New 

 Mexico, to western Texas;'' southward into northwestern IVIexico 

 (Gua3'mas, Sonora) and to Cape district of Lower California (Triunfo, 

 April; San Jose del Cabo, November). 



Vireo vicinior Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 75 (Fort Whipple, Ai-izona; 

 coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Check List, 1873, no. 128; 2d ed., 1882, no. 180; 

 Birds Col. Val., 1878, 517.— Baird, Review Am. Birds; 1866, 361.— Cooper, 

 Am. Nat., iii, 1869, 479; Orn. Cal., 1870, 125 (Arizona).— Elliot, Ilhistr. 

 New and Unfig. N. Am. Birds, pt. i, 1869, pi. 7. — Baird, Brewkr, and 

 RiixjAVAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 393, pi. 17, fig. 7. — Hexshaw, List 

 Birds Arizona, 1875, 157; Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 227 (Colorado 

 Chiquito, New Mexico; Camp Bowie and Caiiij) Lowell, Arizona; habits, song, 

 etc.). — Stephens, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 42 (mountains (if San Diego 

 Co., California, 3,000 ft. up to pine belt), 93 ((iila R., New 3Iexico); Bull. 

 Ridgway Orn. Club, no. 2, 1887, 51 (Cajon Pass, s. California, breeding). — 

 RiDGWAY, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 147. — Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 



^' Twelve specimens. 

 '> Eleven specimens. 

 Specimens from separate geographic areas average, respectively, as follows: 



Measurements of the few specimens examined from southern California and the 

 Cape district are exactly matched by those of individuals in the Arizona series, and 

 I am unable to appreciate the miiuitest different' in coloration. 



^According to American ( )rnitliologists' Union Clicck List. 



