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Adult 7nale.—ljength. (skins), 121-137(131.8); wing, 78-83.5 (80.3); 

 tail, 52-57 (55); exposed culmen, 11-12 (11.7); tarsus, 18-20 (19.1); 

 middle toe, 12-13 (12.1).« 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 120-137 (129.4); wing, 76-82 (78.8); 

 tail, 51-58 (55.7); exposed culmen, 11-12 (11.6); tarsus, 18.5-20 (19.1); 

 middle toe, 11-13 (12.1).« 



Southern Allegheny Mountains, from western Maryland (Finzel) to 

 South Carolina (Ciesars Head, Pickens County), western North Caro- 

 lina, and eastern Tennessee (Roane and Blount counties); in winter, 

 lowlands of southern Atlantic and eastern Gulf States, from South 

 Carolina (near Charleston) to Florida (Suwanee River, Kissimmee 

 River, Caloosahatchee River, etc.). 



Vireo solitarius alticola Brewster, Auk, iii, Jan., 18S6, 111 (Highlands, Macon 

 Co., North Carolina; coll. W. Brewster), 410 (Charleston, South Carolina, 

 Feb. 20).— Langdon, Auk, iv, 1887, 131 (Pine Mt, 1,500 ft., and Defeat Mt., 

 4,000 ft., e. Tennessee).— Fox, Auk, iv, 1887, 164 (Roane Co., Tennessee).— 

 RiDGWAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 593.— Loomis, Auk, vii, 1890, 126 

 (Pickens Co., South Carolina; crit. ; measurements, etc.); viii, 1891, 329, 

 Csesars Head, South Carolina; crit.; measurements). — American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, Check List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 629e. — Chapman, Auk, v, 

 1888, 275 (Gainesville, Florida, winter), 324 (Aiken, South Carolina, Nov. 

 11), 399.— Rives, Auk, vi, 1889, 52 (White Top Mt., Virginia).— Jeffries, 

 Auk, vi, 1889, 122 (Highlands, w. North Carolina, May).— Scott, Auk, ix, 



1892, 213 (Caloosahatchee R., Florida, winter).— Wayne, Auk, x, 1893, 338 

 (Suwanee R., Florida, Feb. 23). — Nehrmxg, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 



1893, 301. 



F[ireo] solitarius alticola Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 473. 

 Vireo solitarius (not Muscicapa solitaria Wilson) Fox, Auk, iii, 1886, 317 (Roane 

 Co., Tennessee). 



LANIVIREO SOLITARIUS PLUMBEUS (Coues). 

 PLUMBEOUS VIREO. 



Similar to Z. v. alticola, but back and scapulars entirely gray; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts gray, tinged with olive-green, and sides and 

 flanks much more faintly washed with 3'ellow. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Above plain slate-gray, the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts more or less strongly tinged with olive-green; wings and 

 tail slate -black, with pale olive-gray edgings, these becoming white on 

 lateral rectrices, the outermost of which has the outer web white; 

 middle and greater wing-coverts broadly tipped with white, forming 

 two conspicuous bands across wing; auricular, suborbital, and malar 

 regions paler gray than upper parts; broad supraloral stripe and 

 orbital ring white, the latter interrupted anterior!}" by a grajnsh dusky 

 spot at anterior angle of eye, this passing into gray on lower anterior 

 portion of lores; chin, throat, and rest of under parts (except sides 



«Teii specimens. 



