BIRDS — LANiroAE — VIREO OT.IVACEUS. 



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Comparative measurements of the species. 



VIEEO OLIVACEUS, Vieill. 



Red-eyed Flycatcher. 



J\Iuscicapa olivacea, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 17GG, 327.— G.m. I, 1786, 938.— Wilson, Am. Orn. II, 1810, 55 ; pi. xii, f. 3. 



Laniits otivaceus , Licht. Verzeich. 1823, 49, No. 525. 



Vireo olhttceiu, "Vieillot," Bon. ObR. Wilson, 182G No. 124.— Sw. F. 13. A. II, 1831, 233.— Ndttall, Man. I, 



1832, 312.— Ahd. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 287 : V, 430 ; pi. 150.— Ib. Syn. 1839, 162.— In. Birds Amer. 



IV, 1842, 155 ; pi. 243. 

 Vireosylvia olivacea, Bon. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838. — Ib. Consp. 1650, 329. — Reiniiardt, Vid. Med. f. 1853, 



1854, 82. 

 Phyllomanes olivaceus, Cab. Mus. Hein. 1850- '51, C3. 

 Red-eye Jlycatcher, Pennant, Catesbt, Latham. 



Sr. Cu. — Second and third quills about equal, and longest ; first a little shorter than the fourth, but considerably longer than 

 the fifth. Back, ruinp, and edges of wing and tail feathers, bright olivaceous green. Side of head and neck paler. Crown 

 dark ash, sharply defined. A well defined whitish line from tlie bill over the eye, nearly to the occiput ; a dark line separating 

 it above from the ashy crown. A dusky line through the eye. Beneatli white ; under tail coverts pale sulphur yellow. Length, 

 about G.50 inches ; wing, 3.50. Iris red. 



i/oi.— Eastern United States to the Missouri ; in Te.\a9 to Devil's river ; south to Guatemala. Greenland, (Keinliardt.) 



This is among the largest of the North American Vireos, and is of very plain colors. The hill 

 is long and nearly straight to the abruptly curved tip. There is no spurious primary ; the second 



