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and rianks) white; sides and flanks broadly and indistinctl,v striped 

 with pak' gra3Msh olive and very pale sulphur yellow: inner Avebs of 

 rcmiges and rectrices broadly edg-ed with white; maxilla black; man- 

 dible blackish at tip, basally g-rayish (pale bluish gray or grayish blue 

 in life); iris brown; legs and feet dusky (grayish blue in life). 



Young. — Similar to adults, but g'ray of upper parts more ])rownish 

 (mouse gray), the sides and flanks white. 



Adult male.— hength (skins), 125-13S (i8(».-i); wing, TT-82 (79.8); 

 tail, 56-61 (58.2); exposed culmen, 11-12 (11. 1); tarsus. i:»-20 (19.8); 

 middle toe, 10-12 (11.2).« 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 124-13J: (129.2); wing, 77-87 (80.8); 

 tail, 56-60 (57.8); exposed culmen, 11-12 (11.2); tarsus, 19-20 (19.7); 

 middle toe, 11-12.5 (11.7)." 



Rock}' Mountain district of United States and mountains of Mexico; 

 breeding from southern Wyoming- (Black Hills, Laramie Peak, etc.), 

 northern Utah (A\"asatch Mountains), and northeastern Nevada (East 

 Humboldt Mountains), southward to Arizona (Mog-ollon Mountains, 

 Santa Catalina range, etc.), Chihuahua, western Texas (mountains 

 west of Pecos River), and Vera Cruz (Las Vegas, 8,000 feet altitude); 

 south in winter to southern Mexico, in States of Oaxaca, Guerrero 

 (Tlalixtn(iuilla), and Colima (plains of Colima). Accidental in New 

 York (Madison County, one specimen, September 2-1, 1898) i 



Virco p'u7nbeus Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 74 (Fort Whipple, Ari- 

 zona; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.) ; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 515. — Allen, Am. Nat., 

 vi, 1872, 345 (Colorado).— Merri AM, Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr, for 1872 

 (1873), 714 (Utah).— Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. II., ii, 1874, 272 (plains 

 of Colima). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881, 198 

 ( Oaxaca) . 



Vin'omjlvia pluinbea Baird, Review Am. Bird:^, ^lay, 1866, 349 (Laramie Peak, 

 Wyoming; Fort Whipple, Arizona; plains of Colima, s. w. ]\Iexico). — Cooper, 

 Orn. Cal., 1870, 119 (Rocky Mts.).— Aiken, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xv, 1S72, 

 198 (Colorado). 



IVireosylvia} jilumbea Sclater and Salvin, Nora. Av. Neotr., 1873, 12. 



Lanivireo plumbeus Ridgway, Field and Forest, iii. May, 1877, 197 (Colorado); 

 Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 451 (Ruby and e. Humboldt Mts., Nevada, breed- 

 ing)- 



Lanivireo plumbea Baird, Brkwer, and Ridgway, Hist. X. Am. Birds, i, 1S74, 

 pi. 17, fig. 10. 



Vireo solUarius, y&t. pluiiibrm Allen, Bull. jMus. Coiiip. Zool., iii, 1872, 149, 176 

 (Colorado).— CouES, Birds N. W., 1874, 100. 



Vireo mlitarius . . . var. plumbeux Coves, Check List, 1873, no. 127((. — Yakkow 

 and Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1874, 12 (Wasatch Mts. 

 and Meadow Creek, Utah). — Hensh.vw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 

 1874, 43 (Utah), 77 (Fort Garland, Colorado, habits, nest and eggs, etc.), 105 

 (Neutria, New Mexico, July 19, and Apache, Arizona, Sept. 3); Zool. Exp. 

 W. 100th INlerid., 1875, 224 (Wasatch Mts., Utah, etc.; habits, etc.). 



Lanivireo solitaria var. pliDiibea RmcavAY. Bull. Essex Inst., v, Nov., 1873, 170, 

 in text, 172 (Wasatch Mts., near Salt Lake City; breeding). 



oTen specimens. 



