VIREOSYLVIA, 



333 



Tireosylvia olivacea. 



Muscicapa olivacea, Linn. S. N. I, 1766, 327 (based on Edwakds, tab. 

 253, and Catksby, pi. 54).— Wils. Am. Oni. II, 1810, 53, pi. xii» 

 fig. 3. — Lanius olivaceus, Light. Verz. 1823,49 (N. Amer.). — Vireo 

 olivaceus, Vieill., Bon. Obs. Wils. 1826, 124. — Swains. F. B. A. II, 

 1831, 233.— Add. Orn. Biog. II, pi. 150.— Ib. B. A. IV, pi. 243.— 

 Baird, Birds N. Am. 185S, 331. — Vireosijlria olio, Bon., Geog. 

 Comp. List, 1838.— Ib. Consp. 1850, 329.— Reinhardt, Vid. Med. 

 f. 1853, 1854, 82 (Greenland).— Ib. Ibis, III, 7.— Sclater, P. Z. S. 

 1855,151 (Bogota) ; 1859, 137, 363 (Xalapa).— Ib. Catal. Am. Birds, 

 • 1861, 43, no. 261.— A. & E. Newton, Ibis, 1859, 145.— Sclatek & 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 12 (Guatemala). — Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Lye. 

 VII, 1860, 246 (Cuba).— Ibis, 1864, 394 (Derby, Engl. May, 1859). 

 — Phyllomanes oliv. Cab. Mus. Hein. 1850-51, 63. — Ib. Jour. 1860, 

 404 (Costa Rica). — Gcndl. Cab. Jour. 1861, 324 (Cuba ; very rare). 



? Vireo virescens, Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. I, 1807, 84, pi. liii (Penna.). — 

 ?Gkay, Genera, I, 267, pi. Ixv. 



Vireo bogotensis, Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. VII, 1860, 227 (Bogota). — Law- 

 rence, Ann. N. Y. Lye. 1863 (Birds Panama, IV, No. 378). 



Hub. Whole of Eastern North America (Halifax, Greenland, Fort Simpson), 

 west to base of Rocky Mts., reaching Fort Bridger and still further northward 

 to Bitterroot Mts. and Kooteiiay ; south to Panama and Bogota, in winter 

 (Xalapa only in Mexico) ; very rare in Cuba (only West Indian locality). 

 Accidental in England. 



(No. 1,418, % , Carlisle, Pa., May, 1844.) Upper parts olive green. Top of 

 head, from bill to nape, ash color. A white line from nostrils above and 

 beyond the eye, bordered above by a dusky line forming the eilge of the ashy 

 cap, and below by a similar, perhaps paler loral and post-ocular clieek stripe. 

 Beneath, including tibise, white, with perhaps a tinge of olivaceous ash across 

 the breast ; the sides of neck like the back ; sides of the body with a faint 

 wash of olive. Axillars and crissum faintly tinged with sulphur j^ellow ; lining 

 of wings and its edge, the latter especially, nearly white. Quills blackisli- 



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Vireosylcia ulivacta. 



brown, edged externally, except at ends of primaries, with olive, internally 

 with white. Tail feathers lighter brown, edged externally like the back, in- 

 ternally with pale olivaceous-white. 



Bill dusky above, pale below ; tarsi plumbeous ; iris red. 



