23. TiREo. 303 



18. Vireo huttoni. 



Vireo huttoni, Cassin, Proc. A. N. Sc. Phil. 1851, p. 150, 1852, pi. i. ; 



Unml, Birch ^\ Am. 1858, p. 3.39, pi. 78. fig. 2; Sclat. P. Z. S. 



1858, p. 302, 1862, p. 19 ; id. Cat. Am. B. p. 358 ; Baird, Rvv. 



Am. B. p. 357 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 380, n. 5751 ; Cooper, 



Orn. Calif, i. p. 121 (1870) ; Baird, Brew., Sf Ridgtc. N. Am. B. 



i. p. 387 ; Scl. ^- Salt: Nomencl. p. 12 ; Salt: Ibis, 1874, p. 99 ; 



Coues, Birds Colorad. Vail. i. p. 525; Salv. ^- Godm. Biol. Centr.- 



Amer., Aves, p. 203. 

 Upper parts dull olive with an earthy brownish tinge on the 

 hind neck and crown ; wings and tail blackish brown, externally 

 edged with pale olive-yellow ; the innermost secondaries are broadly 

 edged, and the greater and median wing-coverts broadly tipped with 

 yellowish white, thus forming two conspicuous alar bands ; edge of 

 wing, under wing-coverts, and inner margin of remiges white ; sides 

 of head and all the underparts of the body are pale ochraceous, 

 rather dull on the chest and flanks, clearer, inclining to creamy 

 yellow, on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; a few feathers 

 behind the eye of the same colour ; bill horn-colour ; feet leaden. 

 Culmen 0-5 inch, wing 2-5-2-6, tail 2, tarsus 0*75. 



Hab. North America, California ; Central America from Mexico 

 to Guatemala. 



a. c? ad. sk. Mexico. Gould Collection. 



b. $ Ad. sk. La Parada, Mexico. M. Boucard [C.]. 



19. Vireo modestxis. 



Vireo uoveboracensis, Gosse (nee Gmel.), B. of Jamaica, p. 192 (1847). 



Vireo modestus, Scl. P.Z. S. 1800, p. 462, 1861, pi. xiv. fig. 1; id. 

 Cat. Am. B. 1861, p. 43 ; Baird, Bev. Am. B. i. p. 362 ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 382, no. 5772 ; Scl. S,- Salv. Nomencl. p. 12. 



Closely allied to V. huttoni, but differing from the latter by a 

 slightly larger bill and by shorter wings ; lower back and rump 

 considerably brighter than the head and interscapular region ; the 

 fu'st primary is barely half, or not half as long as the second, instead 

 of more than half as in V. huttoni. {Baird.) Wing 2'3 inches, 

 tail 2 (Sclater), 2-21 (Baird). 



Hah. Jamaica. 



a. Ad. sk. Jamaica. 0. Salviu and F. D. Godman, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 



20. Vireo carmioli. 



Vireo carmioli, Baird, Bev. Am. B.\. p. 356; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 

 ix. p. 97 ; V. Frantzius, J.f. 0. 1869, p. 295 ; Baird, Breio., i.y Ridyw. 

 N. Am, B. i. p. 383 ; Scl. Sf Salv. Nomencl. p. 12 ; Salv. i^- Godm. 

 Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, p. 203, tab. 12. fig. 3. 



Upper parts, including the crown and the outer edges of the 

 remiges and rcctriccs, olive ; pra?ocular region and long superciliary 

 stripe yellowish : the greater and median series of upper wing-coverts 

 with large whitish yellow tips, forming two conspicuous alar bars . 



