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was attached with spiders'-webs, lined inside with finer blades of grass, and 

 about three inches and a half in diameter, and five in height. The eggs, 

 three in number, were white, with a few black spots, chiefly disposed about 

 the larger end. 



Vireosylvia olivaceus, Bonap. 



RED-EYED GREENLET. 



Muscicapa oHvacea, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 327 (based on Edwards, tab. 253, and Cates- 

 BY, pi. liv). — "Wii.s. Lanius olivaceus, Light. Verz. 1823, 49 (N. Amer.). Vireo oliva- 

 ceus, ViEiLL. ; BoN. ; Swains. II. — Aud. — Baird, Birds N. Am. 18.58, 331. — Sam- 

 uels, Birds N. Eng. 270. Vireosylvia oliv. 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). — A. & E. Newton, 

 Ibis, 1859, 145. — ScLATER & Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 12 (Guatemala). — Lawrence, Ann. 

 N. Y. Lye. VII, 1860, 246 (Cuba).— ? Ibis, 1864, 394 (Derby, Engl. May, 1859). — Baird, 

 Rev. Am. B. 1864, 333. Phyllomanes oliv. Cab. Mus. Hein. 1850 - 51, 63. — Ib. Jour. 

 1860, 404 (Costa Rica). — Gundl. Cab. Jour. 1861, 324 (Cuba ; very rare). .? Virco 

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

 267, pi. Ixv. Fireo bogotcnsis, Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. VII, 1860, 227 (Bogota). — 

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



Sp. Char. (No. 1,418 J, Carlisle, Penn., 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 edge of the ashy cap, and below by a 

 similar, perhaps paler, loral and post-ocular cheek-stripe. Beneath, including tibiae, white, 

 with perhaps a tinge of olivaceous-ash across the breast ; the sides of the neck like the 



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Vireo olivaceus. 



back ; sides of the body with a faint wash of olive. Axillars and crissum faintly tinged 

 with sulphur-yellow ; lining of wings and its edge, the latter especially, nearly white. 

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

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

 pale olivaceous-white. Bill dusky above, pale below ; tarsi plumbeous ; iris red. Length, 

 6.33 ; extent of wings, 10.2.5 ; wing, 3.33 ; tail. 2.50. 



Female similar, but duller in plumage. 



Hab. Whole of Eastern North America (Greenland, Halifax, Fort Simpson), west to 

 base of Rocky Mountains, reaching Fort Bridger, and still farther northward to Bitterroot 

 Mountains and Kootenay ; south to Panama and Bogota, in winter (Xalapa only in Mex- 

 ico) ; very rare in Cuba (only West Indian locality). Accidental in England. Trinidad. 

 (Finsch.) 



