LANIVIREO C'ASSINI. 449 



The habits aud notes of the western bhils of this species are in all rcsiiects 

 like those of the eastern ones. 



List of .i^yccimcnii. 



122, ? a/l; valley of tlio Truckee (Camp 12), August G, 1807. 5g-— 8i— 2' i— SI- 

 tV— §— Ho— 1- Upper mamliblej dark liorn-color, commissure and lower mandible, 

 lilaceous-wLitc; iris, deep brown ; tarsi and toes, light plumbeons-blue. 



153, (? ad; valley of the Uumboldt (Camp 17), September 7, 1SG7. 5-V-8 V— 2' } 

 — -4— 4— §— II— 1-J-- Bill, black, commissure and basal two-tbirds of lower mandible", 

 more lilaceous; iris, hazel; tarsi aud toes, plumbeous-blue, almost ultramarine. 



177, ? ad; West Humboldt Mountains (Camp 18), September !), 1SG7, 5_77_oi_t 

 — 2| — i — i — 1^ — \l. Same reumrks. 



ISO, ? ad; West Ilumboldt Mountains, September 10, 1807. 5^ S— 2 ",— 2^1 J-. 



— TV-I4— 4- Upper mandible, slaty horn-color, tomium edged with lilaceous; lowerj 

 pearl- whitish basally, then pale blue, the tip as dark as the upper mandible; iris,' 

 brown; tarsi and toes, light ashy-ultramarine. 



187, S ad.; West Humboldt Mountains, September 12, 1807. 5i— 8| 2Ji— 2-i— 



-g — g — 2 — la. Same remarks. 



809, nest aud eggs (2); Fort Churchill (Carson River), Nevada, June 21, 1808. 

 Nest in cotton-wood copse, about four feet from ground. Female seen on nest. 



878, ? ad; East Humboldt Mountains, August 27, 1808. 5^7-_8iJ (?)_2-.''.. 



Ui)per mandible, pUirabeous-black with lilaceous edge; lower, plumbeous-blue wi't'ii 

 lilaceous glow basally, and darker terminally; iris, burutumber; tarsi and toes, deli- 

 cate light ashy-blue. 



879, (sex unknown); East Humboldt Mountaius, August 27, 1808. 5g_S.J— 

 ~i%- Same remarks. " 



1109, c? rtfZ.; Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake, June 5, 1809. o.i— Sj|. Bill, 

 dull blackish, the basal two-thirds of lower mandible lilaceousbluish;" iris, "brown- 

 tarsi and toes, plumbeous-blue. 



1251,1252, 1253, nests and eggs; Parley's Park, Wahsatch Mountaius, Utah, 

 June 23, 1809. Nests all about four feet from ground, in aspens of a grove. 



1317, uest and eggs; Parley's Park, June 27, 1807. Aspens. 



1197, <? ad.; Parley's Park, August 10, 1809. 5/^^8ii. Upper mandible, black- 

 ish brown; commissure aud lower mandible, lilaceous; iris, vandyke-brown; tarsi and 

 toes, fine light blue. 



1504, c? ad.; Parley's Park, August 12, 1809. 53—83. Same remarks. 



Laniyireo cassixi. 



Vireo cassini, Xantus, Pr. Ac Nat. Sci. Phihul., 1858, 117.— Baird, B. N. Am., 



1858, 340, pi. 78, fig. ] ; Catal, 1859, No. 251. 

 Lanivireo solitarius var. cassini, B. B. & U., Hist. N. Am. B., 1, 1 874, ;)77, pi. xvii fi". 9. 



Vireo solitarius var. (?) cassini, Henshaw, 1875, 223. 



'* Vireo solitarius" (part). Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1, 1870, 117. 



This rare and little-known species was noticed only in the canons of 

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