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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. [PART Es 
Lanivireo. Body.stout; head broad. Bill short and stout, broad 
at base, the culmen curved from the base, the commissure con- 
siderably arched. Bill blue black. Feet stout. Type V. flavifrons. 
Species V. flavifrons, solitarius, propinquus, plumbeus. 
Vireo. Wings short and rounded, a little longer than the tail, equal to it, or 
shorter. First primary distinct and large, from two-fifths to half or more 
the length of the second, shorter or not longer than the eighth. 
Vireo. Wings pointed; first quill less than half the second, which 
is about equal to seventh or eighth, and decidedly longer than the 
tenth primary and the secondaries. Type V. noveboracensis. The 
Species coming under this section are noveberacensis, carmioli, atri- 
capillus, huttoni, belli, vicinior,' and pusilla. 
Vireonella. Wings rounded; scarcely longer than the tail; the first 
quill half as long as the second (or more than half), which is not 
longer than the tenth primary and secondaries, or even less. Bill 
and feet generally much stouter than the preceding. Typ® V. 
gundlachi. The species belonging here are modestus,? latimeri, 
pallens, ochraceus, crassirostris, gundlachi, and hypochryseus. 
The Vireones are found throughout the New World, both to 
the extreme north and south, each section having peculiar forms. 
None of the North American species are ever met with in the West 
Indies, excepting V. olivaceus, solitarius, flavifrons, and novebora- 
censis, in Cuba, where they are extremely rare, and occur only as 
stragglers. They, however, penetrate on the Continent far to the 
south, in winter, some even reaching Bogota. 
VIREOSYLVIA, Bon. 
Vireosylvia, Bon. Geog. Comp. List, 1838. (Type Muscicapa olivacea, Lix.) . 
Phyllomanes, Cas. Arch. Nat. 1847,1,321. (Notype mentioned ; name 
proposed as substitute for Vireosylvia.) 
Wings pointed, longer than the tail, which is nearly even, or very slightly 
rounded. First primary (as in the type), wanting apparently in some species. 
Bill elongated, about as broad as deep at base, then becoming more agd more 
compressed ; the commissure and culmen nearly straight to the abruptly de- 
curved and hooked tip. Both mandibles with distinct notch, the lower also 
slightly hooked. Nostrils open, oval, in lower edge of cavity, with membrane 
above and behind; the frontal feathers advanced and reaching nearly to 
posterior edge. Bristles in frontal feathers and in rictus to moderate extent. 
Legs in type rather short and weak; tarsus but little longer than middle toe 
' V. vicinior has the first quill half or rather more than half the second, 
but otherwise falls within the limits of the present section. 
2 V. modestus in very small bill and other characters belongs very near V. 
huttoni of the preceding section, although its short wing brings it under the 
present one. 
