366 THE ANTHONY VIREO. 
handsome nest 
and laid fous 
eges in precisely 
ten days; while 
another pair were 
more than three 
weeks from the 
time the nest was 
started until the 
eggs were laid. 
“They are the 
only Vireos that 
I have ever 
known to nest 
in communities. 
Single pairs are 
he rule, but 
I have found 
as many as Six 
o 
occupied nests 
. inside of a very 
i s small area, the 
Taken near Tacoma. Photo by Bowles and Dawson. nests being only a 
3 493) 
O'ER YOUNG TO ELIT. few yards apart. 
No. 141. 
ANTHONY ’S” VIREO: 
A. O. U. No. 632¢. Vireo huttoni obscurus Anthony. 
Synonym.—Dwsky Vireo. 
Description.—4 dults: Above dull olive, brightening (more greenish) poster- 
iorly; wings and tail dusky, edged chiefly with pale olive-green; two prominent 
wing-bars of pale olive-yellow or whitish, formed by tips of middle and greater 
coverts; tertials broadly edged with palest olive on outer, and with whitish on 
inner webs; outer web of outermost rectrix whitish; underparts sordid whitish 
and more or less washed, chiefly on breast and sides, with dingy olive-yellow ; 
lores pale; an orbital ring of whitish, or palest olive-yellow, interrupted midway 
of upper lid by spot of dusky; bill horn-color above, pale below. Length about 
4.75 (120.6) ; average of three specimens in Provincial Museum at Victoria: wing 
2.46 (59.9) ; tail 2.20 (55.8); bill .35 (8.9); tarsus .75 (19). 
