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2. V. carmioli.' Above brownitsb olive-green. Beneath, with 

 supra-loral stripe, orbital ring, and light markings on the wings, light 

 ochrey-yellow more whitish on the throat. Wing, 2.55; tail, 2.00; 

 tarsus, .66 ; bill, .26. Hab. Costa Rica. 



3. V. uoveboracensis. Above olive-green, ashy across the nape. 

 Supra-loial stripe and orbital ring deep yellow. Beneath ashy -white 

 on throat, purer white on abdomen ; sides, and a tinge across the 

 breast, light yellow. Iris white. Wing, 2.40 ; tail, 2.00 ; tarsus, 

 .63 ; bill, .26. Hab. Eastern Province of United States, south (in 

 winter) to Guatemala (and Bogota?) ; very rare in Cuba; abundant 

 and resident in Bermuda. 



4. V. huttoni. Above grayish-olive, more olive-green toward tail. 

 Below pale grayish-buff. Orbital ring very broad, yellowish- white. 

 Wing, 2.50; tail, 2.05 ; tarsus, .67 ; bill, .24. Hab. California; in 

 winter, Western Mexico to Oaxaca. 



B. Only one band on wing, and this indistinct. 



5. V. belli. Above ashy-olive, more virescent posteriorly. Mark- 

 ings on side of head not well defined. Below dull white, Avith a 

 slight buffy tinge, strongly stained with yellow on sides and flanks. 

 Upper feathers of middle row of wing-coverts passing into paler at 

 tip, producing an indication of an anterior band. Wing, 2.20 ; tail, 

 1.80 ; tarsus, .69 ; bill, .25. Hab. Plains between the Mississippi 

 Valley and the Rocky Mountains, from Dakota to Texas ; in winter 

 south to Tehuantepec, Mexico. 



6. V. pusillus. Above gra}'ish-ash, very slightly tinged with olive 

 on rump. Below dull white, ashy laterally, the flanks with the 

 slightest possible tinge of 3-ellow. Wing, 2.30 ; tail, 2.20 ; tarsus, 

 .69 ; bill, .24, .13 deep. Hab. Arizona ; Cape St. Lucas, Lower 

 California; California north to Sacramento City. 



7. V. vicinior. Above bluish-ash, below ashy-white, scarcely 

 more ashy laterally. Lores entirely ashy-white. Wing, 2.60 ; tail, 

 2.40; tarsus, .07 ; bill .26, .18 deep. Hab. Fort Whipple, Arizona. 



Vireo atricapillus, Woodhouse. 



BLACK-CAPPED VIREO. 



Vireo atricapillus, WoODHorsE, Pi-. A. X. Sc. 1S52, 60 (San Pedro, Tex.). —1b. Sitgreaves's 

 Rep. 1853, 75, pi. 1, Birds. — Cassix, Illust. 1854, 153, pi. xxiv. — Baikd, Buds X. 

 Am. 1858, 337 ; Rev. 353. — Cooper, Om. Cal. 1, 1870, 121. 



Sp. Char. (No. 6,818.) Top and sides of head and neck black ; rest of upper parts olive- 

 green. Wing and tail feathers almost black on 

 their upper surface, the quills and rectrices edged 

 with olive (paler on the exterior primaries), the 

 wing-coverts with two greenish-white bands on 

 a blackish ground. Broad line from bill to and 

 around eye (not meeting on forehead) with under 

 parts white ; the sides of body olivaceous ; the 

 axillars and inner wing-coverts (perhaps crissum) vireo atrieapiitus. 



1 Vireo carmioli, Baird, Eeviow Am. B. 1, 1865, p. 356. Hab. Costa Eica. 



