BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 201 



A//f//ffema/e.~ Lom^th (skins). 111-112 (111.5); wing, 56-.5T {oii.o); 

 tail. 4:9-50 (49.5); exposed culmen. 9-9.5 (9.2); tarsus, 18-19 (18.7); 

 Hiiddle.toe, 10-10.5 (10.2)." 



Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles. 



Vireo noveborarr)>xiit (not MuHcicapa noveboracensis Gmelin) Goshe, Birds .Tamaica, 

 1847, 192. 



Vireo modeslm Sclater, Proo. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1860, 462 (Jamaica; vuW. V. L. 

 Sclater); 18(51, 72, pi. 14, fig. 1; Cat. Am. Birdn, 1862, 48.— Alhrecht, Journ. 

 fiir Orn., 1862, 194.— M.vrch, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 186.'], 294.— Baird, 

 Review Am. Birds, 1866, 362.— Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 188.3, 

 303. — Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 187 (synonomy and diagnosis); Birds W. I., 

 1889, 74 (do.); Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 17, 116, 130.— Field, Auk, xi, 1894, 

 127 (descr. nest) . 



[l^(Veo] modestuK Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 382, no. 5772. — Sclater and Salvix, 

 Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 12.— Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 10. 



T"[/*ro] uiodeKiii.'^ Newton (A. and H), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 106. 



VIREO HYPOCHRYSEUS HYPOCHRYSEUS Sclater. 

 GOLDEN YIREO. 



Adulf.s {sexes aliJi-e). — Above plain j-ellowish olive-green (the occiput, 

 hindneck, and })ack tinged with gray in midsunnner plumage): wings 

 and tail dark l^rownish gray or hair brown Avith light yellowish olive- 

 green edg-ings, these becoming pale gray oi- grayish white on longer 

 primaries; l>road superciliary stripe, sides of head l)elow eves and 

 ui)per portion of auricular region, and entire ujider parts, including 

 axillars juid under wing-coverts, yellow (lemon or canary), the chest 

 very fainth', the sides and flanks more strongly, tinged with pale 

 olive-green; maxilla horn color, mandible paler; legs and feet horn 

 color or dusky (in dried skins). 



A(lult ///r//^.— Length (skins), 118-182 (126.9); wing. (53-65.5 (61.5); 

 tail, 55-57 (56); expo.sed culmen, 12-13 (12.5); tarsus, 17.5-19 (18.3); 

 middle toe, 10-11 (10.7).'' 



Ad nit female.— \jem^t\\ (skins), 119-127 (123.2); wing. 58-63 (61.6): 

 tail, 51—57 (55); exposed culmen, 12; tarsus, 18-18.5 (18.1); middle 

 toe, 10. .5-11 (10. 9).'^ 



Western Mexico, in States of Chihuahua (IlaciiMida de San Kafael). 

 Sinaloa (Plomosas; Kosario). flalisco (Barranca Ibarra; San Scbastiaii). 

 and Oaxaca (Quiotepec). 



Vireo hypochryseiifi Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1862, 369, pi. 46 (Mexico; 

 coll. P. L. Sclater). — Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1866, 370, part. — Lawrence, 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 18 (Quiotepec, Oaxaca, Aug.). — Salvin 

 and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Ain., Aves, i, 1881, 204, part. — Gadow, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 304, part.— Loo.mis, Auk, xix, 1902, 88 (Rosario, 

 Sinaloa). 



"Three specimens. ^Seven specimens. 



'■ Five specinKMis. 



