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S YS TEMA TIC S YNOPSIS. - PA SSERES - OSCINES. 



brightest colored, especially on sides, crissum, and lining of wings. Large ; length 5.75-6.25 ; 



extent 9.75-10.75 ; wing 3.00-3.33; tail 2.33-2.50 ; bill about 0.66 ; tarsus 0.75. Eastern N. 



Am. ; N. to Hudson's 

 Bay and even Green- 

 land; W. sometimes 

 to Utah, Washington, 

 and British Columbia; 

 breeds throughout its N. 

 Am. range, and winters 

 from the Gulf States 

 southward to northern 

 Fig. 21d. — V. olivaeeus, nat. size. (From Baird.) g. Am. In most 



places the most abundant species of the genus, in woodland; a voluble, tireless songster. 

 Eggs 0.80 X 0.55; nest often in a sapling. 



V. flavivi'ridis. (hat. flavus, yeWow ; viridis, green. Fig. 220.) Yellow-green Green- 

 let. Resembling the last; more yellowish below; under wing- and tail-coverts decidedly 

 yellow; sides of body decidedly greenish- 

 yellow; length 6.25-6.75. Lower Rio Grande 

 valley of Texas and southward to Ecuador, 

 Peru, and upper Amazon region ; accidental 

 in California and Quebec. 



V. philadel'phicus. (Gr. (piXto), pMleo, I 

 love; d8e'\(p6s, brother. Fig. 221.) Broth- 

 erly-love Greenlet. Above, dull olive- 

 green, brightening on rump, fading insensibly 



into ashy on crown, which is not bordered Fia. 220. - V. /taviviridis, rya.t. size. (From Baird.) 



with blacki.sh ; a dull white superciliary line ; below, very pale sulphur-yellow, whitening 

 on throat and belly, slightly olive-shaded on sides; sometimes a slight creamy or buft'y shade 

 throughout the under parts ; no obvious wing-bars ; no apparent spurious quill. Length 

 4.80-5.10; extent 8.00-8.50; win<r2.66; tail 2.15; bill hardly or about 0.50; tarsus 0.66. 

 Eastern N. Am., strictly; N. to Hudson's Bay ; breeds from the northern tier of states nortli- 

 ward; S. in winter to Cent. Am. A small, plainly-colored species, distinguishable from gilnis 

 by apparent absence of a spurious quill ; not very common in the Atlantic States, more so in 

 the Mississippi Valley. (Best account of this species by Dwight, Auk, July, 1897, pp. 259- 

 272, pi. 2.) 



Fio. 221. — V. philadelphicus, nat. size. (From Baird.) 



"V. gil'vus. (Lat. (jilcusj yellowish. Figs. 21 



Fio. 22: 



222 ) 



— T'. gilvHS, nat. size. (From Baird.) 



Warbling Greenlet. Cidors 

 spurious quill present and 



much as in the last species, but below with very litth! yellowish 

 evident, ;|- to ^ as long as 2d primary. Length 5.50-6.00; extent 8.50-9.25; wing 2.80; tail 

 2.25; bill 0.40; tarsus 0.65. Eastern N. Am. to the high central plains, breeding throughout 

 its range ; wintering extralimital ; an abundant little bird and an exquisite songster. Its voice 

 is not strong, and many birds excel it in brilliancy of execution ; but not one of tliem all can 



