^rv, 



Till-: .wni( i\N \ \\^\'h 



Takt'ti near Taco 



Photo ty Bowles and Demion. 

 OEK YOL'M. TO FI.IT. 



!i;mils<niif nest 



nul laid four 



U'gs in precisely 



I II (lays; wliile 



nother i)air were 



Hire than tliree 



weeks fr«»in the 



lime the nest was 



-lartcd mitil the 



■ L;gs were lai<l. 



"They are the 

 ' luly \'ireos that 

 I have ever 

 l.nown to nest 

 111 comnnniities. 

 Single jjairs arc 

 ilie rule, but 

 I iiave found 

 -> many as six 

 a ciii)ied nests 



inside of a very 

 small area, the 

 nests l)eing only a 

 few yards apart." 



No. 1 .4 1. 



ANIIION^S \IRHO. 



A. O. W \n. 63J r. \ irco luittoni obsciiriis Anthony. 



S\non\m. — DisKV \'iKi:u. 



ncscription. — Adults: .Mxive dnll olive. l)ri),'htcninR (more greenish) ]K>stcr- 

 inrly : wings anil tail dusky, edged chiefly with i)ale olive-green: two prominent 

 wing-bars of |)ale olive-yellow <ir whitish, formed by tips of mi<l<llc and greater 

 coverts: tertials broadly edged with ]>alest olive on outer, and with whitish on 

 inner webs: outer web of outermost rectrix whitish: nnderj)arts sordiil whitish 

 and more or less washed, chiefly on breast and sides, with dingy olive-yeIi<iw : 

 lores pale: an orbital ring of whitish, or palest olive-yellow, intermjileil midway 

 of upper lid by spot of dusky: bill horn-color almve, pale below. Length about 

 4.75 ( 120.6) : average of three specimens in Provincial Museum at N'ictoria: wing 

 2.46 (59.9) : tail 2.20 (55.S) : bill ..^5 (8.0) : tarsus .75 ( 19). 



