VIRKONTD.K - THE VIREOS. 



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was attached with spiders'- wobs, lined iiisitle with finer Mades of gi-ass, and 

 about three inches and a half in diameter, and five in height. The e<"'s. 

 three in number, were white, with a few black spots, chieily disposed about 



the larger end. 



Vireosylvia olivaceus, Bonap. 



BED-&TED 6REENLET. 



Muscicapti ofiracca, Linn. Syst. N:it. I, 17G6, :}-27 (bas.'tl on Edwards, tah. 2.'»3, andCATEs- 

 DV, i>l. liv). — Wii.s. LiitiiusoUvactiis, LicHT. Vvrz. l^'li, 4!»(N. Aiiut.^. Vircoolicn- 

 nils, ViKII.L. ; lioN. ; SwAINS. II. — AlD. — TiAKlIt, IJinls N. Am. is:>», 831. — Sam- 

 I'KLs, Birds N. Eii<,'. 270. J'irtosifh-ot o/ii\ Bon. (m-o^j;. ('oiui>. List, 1838. — In. (^'oiisji. 

 1850, 329. — KKiNMAitirr, Vi.l. Med. f. 1853, 1854, 82 ^dmMilund). — In. Ibis, III, 7. 

 — ScLATEU, I'. Z. S, 1855, 151 (Bogota) ; 185S>, 137, 363 (Xalupa). —A. & E. Newton, 

 Ibis, 1859, 145. — Solateu & Salvix, Ibis, 1859, 12 (Giuitemala). — Lawuexce, Ann. 

 N. Y. Lyc.VII, 1860, 246 (Cuba).— ! Ibis, 1864, 3S»4 (Derby, Engl. May, 1859). — Baiuu, 

 Rev. Am. B. 1864, 333. PhuUnuianesoln'. Cab. Mas. Hein. 1850-51, 63. — Iii. Jour. 

 1860, 404 (Costa Rica). — (JrNDL. Cab. Jour. 1861, 324 (Cuba; very rare), f Vlrco 

 vircscenfi,\iVALL. Ois. Am. Sept. I, 1807, 84, jd. liii (Tenna.). — HliiAV, (lenera, I, 

 267, pi. Ixv. Virto hiKjotcnsi.% liiiVANT, V\. liost. Soo. VII, 18G0, 227 (Bogota). — 

 Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Lye. 1863 (Birds Ranania, IV, No. 378). 



Sp. Char. (So. 1.418 ^, Carlij^lo, Ponn., May, 1814.) Upper parts olivo-frreen. Top 

 of liead, from bill to nape, ;usli-culor. A white line Iroiu nostrils above and beyond the 

 eye, bordered above by a dusky line rorming the edge of the ashy cap, and below by a 

 similar, perhaps paler, loral and post-ocular cheek-stripe. Beneath, including tibiio, white, 

 with perhaps a tinge of olivaceous-aj>h across the breast; the sides of the neck like the 



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Vireo olivaceus. 



back; sides of the body with a faint wash of olive. Axillars and crissuni faintly tinged 

 with sulphur-yellow; lining of wings and its edge, the latter especially, nearly white. 

 (Quills blackish-brown, edged externally, except at entls of primaries, with olive, internally 

 with white. Tail-feathers lighter brown, edged externally like the back, internally with 

 pale olivaceous-white. Bill dusky abov(\ pale below ; tarsi plumbeous ; iris red. Length, 

 G.33 ; extent of wings. 10.'2') ; wing, 3.3.? ; tail. li.oO. 



Femah similar, but duller in plumage. 



Har. Whole of Eastern Xoith America (Grecidand, Halifax, Fort Simpson), west to 

 base of Rocky Mountains, reaching Fort Bridger, and still farther northward to Bitterroot 

 Mountains and Kooteuay ; south to Panama and Bogota, in winter (Xalapa only in Mex- 

 ico) ; very rare in Cuba (only West Indian locality). Accidental in England. Trinidad. 

 (FiNScn.) 



