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common notes of this Vireo very closely resemble those of the Western Wood 

 Wmn {7\v(/lodi/tis jjurLiuu Hill). 



Vireosylvia flavifroTU. 



Lanivireo flavifrons, Baikd. 



TELLOW-THBOATED VIBEO. 



Vireo Jlavifrons, Vieill. Ois. Am, Sept. I, 1807, 85, pi. liv. — Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 

 pi. exix. — Id. Birds. Am. iV, j>l, ccxxxviii. — Ca.vsin, Pi. A. N. iSc 1851, 141). — 

 ScLATKii, P. Z. S. 1S57, '211 (Vera Cruz) ; 18GU, '257 (Orizulw). — Sclatkii &; Salvin, 

 Ibis, I, 1859, 12 iGuat.'nii.la). — Tab. .Tour. Ill, 408 (Cuba : winter). — (;rM>LA«ii, 

 Cab. Jour. 1861, 324 (Cuba ; ran-). — Cau. Jour. 1860, 405 (Costa Kica). Vino {Lxui- 

 virco) Jlav. Baikd, Birds N. Am. 1858, 341. Vircosylvin {Lanicirco) jlai'ifrons, Baiud, 

 Ri'V. :J46. Mi'.acicapa aijlvicola, WiLs. Am. Oru. II, 1810, 117, pi. vii, f. 3. 



Sp. Ciiak. (No. 28.390.) Head and neck abovo and on sides, with interscapular roprion, 

 bright olive-irreen. Lower back, rump, tail, and wing-covertiJ a^^hy. Wings brown, with 

 two white bands across the coverts, the 

 outer edges of inner secondaries, and inner 

 edges of all the quills, with inside of wing, 

 white. Outer primaries ed.L:<'d with gray. 

 the inner with olive. Tail-feathers luown, 

 entirely encircled by a narrow vi\r:c of white. 

 Under parts to middle of body, a line from 

 lostiils over eye, eyelids, and patch be- 

 neath the eye (bordered behind by the olive 

 of neck) bright gamboge-yellow ; rest of 



under y)arts white, the flanks faintly glossed with ashy. Lores dusky. Bill and legs 

 plumbeous-1 »lack. 



No spurious primary evident : second quill longest ; first a little shorter than third. 



Length. ').S0; wing, 3.00; tail, 2.00 ; difTerence of longest and innermost quills. .90; 

 tarsus. .73. 



IIab. Eastern United States, south to Costa Rica. Veragua (Salvix). Very rare in 

 Cuba. 



Autumnal birds, perhaps more especially the youniz, are more glossed with 

 olivaceous, which inv^ades the ashy portions, and tinges the white. 



Habits. All the older ornitliological writers, in s])eaking of the Vellow- 

 throated Vireo, repeat eacli other in describing it as peculiarly attracted to 

 the forest, seeking its solitudes and gleaning its food chieHy among its top- 

 most brandies. Such has not been my experience with this interesting and 

 attractive little songster. I have found no one of this genus, not even the 

 ffiho, so common in the vicinity of dwellings, or more familiar and fearless 

 in its intercourse with man. All of its nests that I have ever met with have 

 been built in gardens and orchards, and in close proximity to dwellings, and 

 they have also been exclusively in comparatively low positions In one of 

 the most recent instances a pan- of these l)irds built one of their beautiful 

 moss-covered nests in a low branch of an apple-tree that overhung the cro- 

 quet-ground, within a few rods of my house. It was first noticed in conse- 



