IJIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 1 T).^) 



:5.S5, jiart; Cat. N. yVin. P.irds, 1859, no. 245, part.— Willis, Ann. lie]'- 

 Smitlison. Inst, for 1858 (1859), 282 (Nova Scotia).— Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, 

 5 (PV)rks of Saskatchewan ); 1863, 66 (Saskatchewan).— Verrill, Proc. Bo.«t. 

 Soc. N. H., ix, 1863, 2.34 (Maine).— (?) Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 480 (near San 

 Antonio, Texas, ])reeding).— McIlwraitii, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1866, 87 

 (Hamilton, Ontario).— Coues, (Jheck List, 1873, no. 125; 2d ed., 1882, no. 

 174; Birds N. W., 1874, 97, jmrt.— Allen, Bnll. Mns. Conip. Zool., iii, 1872, 

 176, part (e. Kansas) ; Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1874, 54 (Dakota).— Sxow, 

 Birds Kansas, 1873, 5.— McCauley, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., iii, 1877, 

 662 (n. Texas).— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 115 (descr. 

 young).— Brewer, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 237 (East Bethel, Ver- 

 mont^ breeding).— Merriam, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 228 (Adiron- 

 dacks. New York, breeding).— Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 

 296, ])art.— BicKNELi,, Auk, i, 1884, 218 (song).— American Ornitholocists' 

 Union, Check List, 1886, no. 627, part.— Seton, Auk, iii, 1886, 325 (Eed R., 

 Assiniboine R., Redwing, and Duck Mts., w. Manitoba).— Cooke, Bird 

 Migr. Miss. Yal., 1888, 234 (localities and dates).— Ridg way, Orn. Illinois, 

 i, 1889, 184.— Scott, Auk, vii, 1890, 15 (Tarpon Sprhigs, Florida, spring 

 migr.).— Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 615 (Manitoba; sum- 

 mer resid.).— Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 292, part.— Fleming, 

 Auk, xviii, 1901, 43 (Elmsdale and Beaumaris, n. Ontario).— Howell, Auk, 

 xviii, 1901, 343 (Mount Mansfield, Vermont, breeding). 



[ T nw] gilrus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 121. 



V[ire(/\ gilvm Coves, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 332.— Ridgway, Man. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1887, 471. 



{Vireo gilvus] Dwight, Auk, xiv, 1897, pi. 2, left-hand fig. 



Vireo gilva Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 235, in text (crit.).— Brewer, 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vi, 1857, 109. 



Vireosylma gilra Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1851, 153, part.— (?) Scl.\ter, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 298 (Cordova, Vera Cruz); Cat. Am. Birds, 

 1862, 43 (Philadelphia).— Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1866, 342 (Fort Simp- 

 son, s. Mackenzie; Selkirk Settlement, Manitoba; :MissouriR. ; Fort Look- 

 out, Nebraska, etc.).— (?) Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. ]\Ius., i, 1878, 125 

 (Fort Brown, Texas, Oct. 2).— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 

 174; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 139. 



Vlireosylvia] gilva Jordan, Man. Vertebr. E. U. S., 4th ed., 1884, 75. 



Vireosyliia gikus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874,368, 

 pi. 17, fig. 3.— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1875, 440. 



[Vireo gilims] a. gilrm Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 97 (synonymy). 



[Vireo gilvm swoimoni] a. gilriif: Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 501 (synonymy). 



[Vireoaylria gilviis'] var. gilntx Baird, Brewer, and Riik;way, Hist. X. .\m. Hirds, 

 i, 1874, 360. 



Mmncapa melodia Wilson, Am. Orn., v, 1812, 85, pi. 42, tig. 2 (Pennsylvania).— 

 Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., x, 1817, 382.— Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 176. 



VIREOSYLVA GILVA SWAINSONII (Baird). 

 WESTERN WARBLING VIREO. 



Similar to V. g. gUra, but smaller, with relatively smalliM- bill: col- 

 oration darker, especially the pileum, whieh is perceptil>ly (oft»Mi 

 distinctly) darker than the back; the latter, together with sides and 

 flanks, usually more strongly olivaceous. 



