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Young. — Above wood l)rown or isabcllu color, the wings and tail as 

 in adults; below pale l)ufly yellow (straw yellow or primrose). 



Adult ;;i«/t'.- Length (skins), 107-115 (112.3); wing, 64-(5T.5 {m); 

 tail, 45-51 (48.5); exposed culmen, 9-11 (9.7); tarsus, 19; middle toe, 

 10-11 (10. 5). « 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 109; wing, HS.o; tail, 48; exposed 

 culmen, 10; tarsus, 18.5; middle toe, 10.* 



Highlands of Costa Rica (Dota; Pirris: Volcan de Irazu) and Chiri- 

 qui (Volcan de Chiriqui; Boquete). 



Vin'o carDiinli Baird, Review Am. Bird^i, May, 1866, 356 (Dota Mts., Costa Rica; 

 coll. V. S. Nat. Mus.).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 97 (Dota 

 Mts.). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 295 (Costa Rica). — Salvin and 

 GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881, 203, pi. 12, fig. 3 (Dota Mts. and 

 Volcan de Irazu, Costa Rica; Volcan de Chiriqui, Veragua). — Gadow, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 303.— Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 

 1887, 108 (Costa Rica). 



Vireo carmioli? Ridgway, Proc. U. .S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1884, 411 (Pirris, Costa 

 Rica; descr. ; crit. ). 



[T7/vo] carmioK ScLATER and Salvin, Nom. Av. Xeotr., 1873, 12. 



r[i>eo] carmioli Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 383. 



Vireo superciliaris "Ridgway, MS." Cherrie, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, no. 

 855, Sept. 4, 1891, 340, in text (Pirris, s. w. Costa Rica; coll. U. S. Nat. ]\Ius. ). 



VIREO MODESTUS Sclater. 

 JAMAICAN VIREO. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Above plain greenish olive or grayish olive- 

 green; wnngs and tail dusky, with pale olive or olive-green edgings, the 

 middle and greater wing-coverts tipped with pale olive-yellow or dull 

 yellowish white, forming two distinct bands across wing; sides of 

 head and neck similar in color to pileum, back, etc., gradually becom- 

 ing paler toward throat, wdiich, with chin and upper portion of lores, 

 are very pale ycdlowish olive-gray; rest of under parts very pale olive- 

 yellowish or straw yellow, the sides and flanks strongly washed with 

 pale greenish olive; axillars and under wing-coverts primrose yellow, 

 the latter more whitish; irmer webs of remiges broadl}' edged wiih 

 white; maxilla horn bi-ownish, darker at tip; mandible pale brownish 

 (in dried skins); iris white; legs and feet dusky in dried skins, ""lead 

 blue, soles light orange "'' in life. 



YourKj {(ift( rjii'st molt). — Similar to adults, as described above, but 

 upper parts more browish olive and under parts of body more buti'y 

 yellowish (pale maize yellow). 



Adult ?7?r/7t>.— Length (skins), 100-117 (108.3); wing, 56-58 (56.5); 

 tail, 44-50 (47.6); exposed culmen, 8.5-9.5 (8.9); tarsus, 17-19.5 (18.6); 

 middle toe, 10-11.5 (10-8).^' 



« Three specimens. <: A. Newton, on label. 



'' One specimen. '' Seven specimens. 



