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slightly ashy on sides of breast. Flanks and inside of wings showing a faint 
trace of yellow, only appreciable on raising the wings. An obsolete line from 
bill to eye, and a more distinct ring round the eye, white. No bands on the 
wing, except a faint edging of whitish on the greater coverts ; the quills edged 
internally with white. Bill and legs plumbeous. “Iris brown. Mouth livid, 
bluish-white.” (Coues.) 
Fresh specimen: Total length, 5.60; expanse of wings, 8.60. Prepared 
specimen: Total length, 5.10; wing, 2.50; tail, 2.60, its graduation, .22; 
difference of 10th and longest quills, .40; exposed portion of Ist primary, .85, 
of 2d, 1.65, of longest (measured from exposed base of 1st primary), 1.95; 
length of bill from forehead, .50, from nostril, .32, along gape, .61 ; depth of 
bill, 18; tarsus, .72; middle toe and claw, .51, claw alone, .16; hind toe and 
claw, .40, claw alone, .19. 
This species would at first sight be taken for a small specimen 
of V. plumbea, the colors, character of bill, ete., being exactly simi- 
lar, except that the white of lores and around eye is much less dis- 
tinct, and there is only one faint band on wing, instead of two 
conspicuous ones; the tail feathers, too, lack the distinct white 
edgings. The much more rounded wing, and the first primary half 
the second or more, will, however, readily distinguish them. The 
form of the bird is very much that of V. pusillus, which it resembles 
also in color. The outer quill is, however, longer, the bi deeper 
and more compressed, the inner lateral toe considerably shorter, and 
the size larger. The colors are purer, without the olive of the back 
or the yellowish of the under parts; the bill, too, is entirely dark 
plumbeous, instead of horn color, whitish beneath. From V. pallens 
it is distinguished by smaller, darker bill; longer tail and wing; one 
wing band, not two, and purer colors. 
Smith-|Collec- Sex When : 
sonian| tor’s | and Locality. Collected Received from Remarks. 
No. No. | Age. : 
40,697 | 1,507 | ¢& | Fort Whipple, near | May 24, oe Elliot Coues, M.D. Type. 
[Prescott, Ar. | 
Vireo modestus. 
Vireo modestus, ScuATER,+P. Z. S. 1860, 462 (Jamaica); 1861, 72, pl. 
xiv, fig. 1.—Is. Catal. 1861, 43, no. 259.—Marcna, Pr. A. N. Se. 
1863, 294.—V. noveboracensis, GossE, Birds Jam. 1847, 192 (not 
of GMELIN). 
Hab. Jamaica. 
(No, 22,143, 4.) Thewhole upper parts are of a dull olive green, with a 
shade of brown, the sides of head and neck paler. The quills and tail feathers 
are brown; the 1st and 2d primaries very faintly edged with whitish, the 
