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grayish huti'v on upper part of auricular regon; under parts white, 

 the under tail-coverts paie yellowish. 



Adult male. —I jQngth. (skins), 110-18-1: (124); wing, 07-74 (70.4); 

 tail, 49-55 (51.9); exposed culmen, 10-11 (10.8); depth of bill at nos- 

 trils, 3.5-4 (3.9); tarsus, 17-19 (17.9); middle toe, 10-11 (10.2). « 



Adult female.— 'LQ.ngt\i{s\ims), 114-125 (120. S); wing, (>»)-71 (09); 

 tail, 47-53 (50.1); exposed culmen, 10-11 (10.5); depth of bill at nos- 

 trils, 3.5-4 (3.9); tarsus, 17-19 (18); middle toe, 10-11 (10.3).^' 



Eastern temperate North America; north to Nova Scotia, northern 

 Ontario (Elmsdale; Beaumaris), Manitoba (Selkirk; Red Eiver; Assin- 

 iboine River; Duck Mountains), etc.; west to North Dakota (Pem- 

 bina;'" Fort Rice'), southeastern Montana (Fort Keogh'), South 

 Dakota (Cheyenne River,'" Custer Count}'), Kansas, Oklahoma, and 

 Texas (Tascosa'); breeding from the northern limit of its range to the 

 Gulf States (Florida to Texas). (No extralimital specimens seen, and 

 all extralimital records questionable, as probably pertaining to Y. g. 

 svynvf<oni.) 



Mumc(qja gilra X'ieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., i, 1807, 65, jil. 34 (New York). — 



Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., x, 1817, 387. 

 Si/lvia gilva Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'PIist. Nat., xi, 1817, 190; Enc. Meth., ii, 



1823, 453. 

 Vireo gilvus Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 176; Ann. Lye. 



N. Y., ii, 1826, 70; Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 26.— Nuttall, 3Ian. Orn. 



U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 309.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 114, pi. 118; 



Synopsis, 1839, 1*61; Birds Am., oct. ed., iv, 1842, 149, pi. 241.— Hoy, Proc. 



Ac. Nat. Sei. Phila., 1853, 309 (Wisconsin); Ann. Eep. Smithson. Inst, for 



1864 (1865), 437 (Missouri). — Woodhouse, in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. 



Zufii and Col., 1853, 76, part (Indian Territory; Texas). — Thompson, Nat. 



Hist. Vermont, 1853, App.,p. 22.— Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 



« Twenty-two specimens. 

 & Thirteen specimens. ^ 



Specimens from the Atlantic coast district and Mississippi Valley, respectively, 

 average as follows: 



Locality. 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



Ten adult males from Atlantic coast district 



Ten adult males from Mississippi Valley 



Two adult males from southeastern Montana 

 (Port Keogh) 



FEMALES. 



Five adult females from Atlantic coast district . . . 



Seven adult females from Mississippi Valley 



One adult female from southeastern Montana 

 (Fort Keogh) 



10.3 

 10 



10.1 

 10.3 



11 



c Breeding at these localities. 



