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THE ANTHONY VIREO. 



Taken near Tacoma. 



PItoto by Bozulcs and Dazi'soti. 

 O'ER YOUXG TO FLIT. 



handsome nest 

 and laid four 

 eggs in precisely 

 ten days ; while 

 another pair were 

 more than three 

 weeks from the 

 time the nest was 

 started until the 

 eggs were laid. 



"They are the 

 only Vireos that 

 I ha\'e ever 

 km iwn to nest 

 in communities. 

 Single pairs are 

 the rule, l)ut 

 I have found 

 as manv as six 

 occupied nests 



inside of a very 

 small area, the 

 nests being only a 

 few yards apart." 



No. 141. 



ANTHONY'S VIREO. 



A. O. U. No. 632 c. Vireo liuttoni obscuriis Anthony. 



Synonym. — Dusky VirKo. 



Description. — Adults: Above dull olive, brightening (more greenish) poster- 

 iori}- : wings and tail dusky, edged chiefly with pale olive-green : two prominent 

 wing-bars of pale olive-vellow or whitish, formed by tips of middle and greater 

 coverts; tertials broadlv edged with palest olive on outer, and with whitish on 

 inner webs ; outer web of outermost rectrix whitish ; underparts sordid whitish 

 and more or less washed, chiefly on breast and sides, with dingy olive-yellow ; 

 lores pale : an orbital ring of whitish, or palest olive-yellow, interrupted midway 

 of upper lid by spot of dusky ; bill horn-color above, pale below. Length about 

 4.75 f120.fi) : average of three specimens in Provincial Museum at A'ictoria: wing 

 2.46 (59.9) : tail 2.20 (55.S) : bill .33 (8.9) : tarsus .j^ ( 19). 



