VIREO. 475 



Young : Above plain olive-gray, becoming more oliva- 

 ceous posteriorly; middle and greater wing-coverts 

 broadly tipped with pale butf, tertials broadly edged 

 with yellowish white, secondaries narrowly edged with 

 olive-yellowish, and primaries with pale grayish or 

 grayish white ; lower parts white, passing into very 

 pale bufl'y yellow on flanks and under tail-coverts; 

 head-markings as in adult, but supraloral streak white, 

 passing into pale j-ellowish over eye, and lores dull 

 grayish.) 

 gK Smaller and brighter colored, the supraloral streak, 

 etc., deeper yellow, the sides and flanks bright 

 sulphur-yellow; length 4.50-5.00, wing 2.35-2.50, 

 tail 1.90-2.10, culmen (from base) .55-.58, bill from 

 nostril .27-.30, tarsus .72-78. JVest in bushes, in 

 thickets or along borders of woods or swamps. 

 Eggs .75 X -55. Hcib. Eastern United States, 

 west to Rocky Mountains; south, in winter, 

 through eastern Mexico to Guatemala; resident 

 in Bermudas.. 631. V. noveboracensis (Gmel.). 

 White-eyed Vireo. 

 g^. Larger and duller colored, the yellow everywhere 

 paler, that on sides and flanks sometimes a 

 mere tinge of pale sulphur-3-cllow; length about 

 5.00, wing 2.35-2.50, tail 2.10-2.20, culmen (from 

 base) .60-.65, bill from nostril .32-.35, tarsus 

 .78-.82. Hab. Key West, Florida. 



631a. V. noveboracensis maynardi Brew.st. 



Key West Vireo.' 



e'. Wings dull dusky grayish, the middle and greater coverts 



narrowly and not ver\- sharplj- tipjjcd with dull white. 



Top of head and hind-neck dull browni.sh gray, gradually 



changing to grayish olive-green on back, scapulars, 



rump, and upper tail-coverts ; a rather indistinct loral 



streak and interrupted orbital ring, dull white ; cheeka 



and ear-coverts light brownish gray, fading gradually 



into dull white or bufl'y white of throat ; median lower 



parts white, the breast usually faintlj' tinged with 



Bulphur-yellow ; sides and flanks sulphur-3-ellow, 



tinged with olive ; under tail-coverts and under win<»- 



coverts clear pale 8uli)hur-yellow ; length 4.20-5.25, 



•wing 2.05-2.30 (2.18), tail i.80-1.95 (1.88), bill fron^ 



nostril .2S-.30 (.29), tarsus .70-.75 (.72). Nest in 



* Vireo utjviloracensia mai/nardi Lrewst., MS. 



