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Vireo noveboracensis, I'.onap. 



WHIT£-£Y£D VIBEO. 



Musrl'i /nt nnrrhomrrHMi's, C,y\. Sy«^t. Nat. I, MsH, l»i7 (tStnn Fhjn'frhrr, PF.NNANT, Arrtir 



Z«M.I. li, :{M»). /7/r.» nov.h. \V^\. ol.s. Wils lM»:,. Ai i.. : ( ' \»in. H.\ii:i», 



llirtls N. Am. IS.'.S, ;}:J*s ; U.v. :{:)4. Max. S. i.aii i:, I' '/.. S. ls.-,7, •J(U (XalapiU; 

 ■J-J>H \V«Ta (luz). - Sri.ATK.lt A; Sa I. VI \, II. is, II, lS«;o, ^74 (Tohaii. (Jiiat. ». .Ionk.s, 

 Nat. IJriiiMula, 1H.'»1», 71 (rcsitlt'iitK - Taii. .Imir. III. 4»>'.» (< 'n'>aK < llNl»i,A< ii, ("iih. 

 .I«»ur. 1H»;1, .{•Jl (riiliii ; lair). — Samiki>, llinl.s N. Ku;^. •J7.'». /V/mi i,nisi,n.s, Vikii.l. 

 Ois. .\m. S.pt. I, 1SU7, H:J, pi. liii. Mustinifn iii„f<ifn.'; \\n.s. II, IMo, 2«»«), pi. xviii. 



Fiffuns : Ari>. Om. llioj;. pi. Ixiii. -lu. IJinls N. A. IV, pi. ccx!. 



Sf. CiiAU. (No. I0,lli:j ^.Illinois.) First piiuiiiiv alMnit luill' tin- h'U'..rtli of .mh-otkI. 

 wliicli is hinirtT than .s«Moiulari«'s, ami alu)ut rtMial \n tjic ci'/iifli: the roiirtli l«)ii"-fst • tliird 

 an<l litth iittli' siiorttT. 



Al>ov»' (piitr olivc-^Tfoii ; sidt'.^ of neck, and a l^oss imi its iippfi- siirlacc, .-isjiv. Tho 

 initldic cMiu-t'ah'd portion of fratlicrs of lo\v«-r l»ack and rinn]> pale siilplnu-yclluwisli. 

 nt'iu-ath white; the eiiin and lower cheeks with a jrrayish tinire; the .sides of iirea.^t am] 

 hodv, with axiUais and hase of erissinn (more faintiv). hriirht yellow; the inner win"- 

 coverts and rest of crissnin much ))aler, almost wdiite. A hroad yellow line from nostrils 

 to and contimions with a yellow rim: round the eye. which is encircled exteriorl}- l»v 

 olivaceons; a dusky loral, hnt no jiost-iwular spot. Win^r- with two c(»vert-l>ands and 

 innermost s«-condaii«'s externally, hritadly yellowish-white; rrst of (piills edired externally 

 with olive, excej)t the two outer and tips of nijicr primaiirs. which are^'rayi>h. liectrieos 

 edited externally with olive, except outermost, which is bordered hy jrrayish. All the lontr 

 quills l)on1ere(l internally l>y whitish. l>ill l>lue-hlack. pah-r on the e<lifes ; leps dark 

 plumbeous. Iris white. Total len<rth. 4.!»> ; wiu<r, 2.40; tail. 2 I'M. 



Hah. United States, west to base of M.>ckv Miumtains: south to Guatemala; Bojrota? 

 Very rare in Cuba. Abimdant and resid«'nt in the ncrmiidas. 



Specimeii.s vary .sliu^litly in a greater amount of a.^liy on tlie liead, and les.s 

 brilliancv of the yellow of head and side.s. Sometimes there is a decided 

 ashv .shade in the white of throat and iui];nlum, which airain has a very faint 

 tinuje of yellowish. 



Haihts. The White-eved Vireo is one (d" the most common and one of 

 the most widely diffused of its 1,'entis in all parts of the rnitcd States east 

 of the IJockv ^Fountains. Tt apparently breeds in ;dl parts r»f the Union, 

 from Texas and the Indian Territory on the southwest to Iowa and Wiscon- 

 sin, and as far to the northeast tis Massnchtisetts. In the last-named State 

 it Ix'fomes exc(»edinij;ly rare, an«l beyond it is ajijKirently not found, none 

 havinn; been met with either by Messrs. Verrill or IJoardmaii in any part of 

 Maine. In Western Ma.ssachusetts it was not found by Mr. Allen, though 

 it occurs in the ea.stern part, ahnig the coast. Mr. Dresser found it common 

 in Western Texas, many remairdng there to breed, and Dr. Woodhouse also 

 found it abundant in Texas, Xew Mexico, and the Indian Territory, where 

 it freciuented the thickets borderiiiLj on the .streams. It breeds abundantly 

 in the Northwest States of Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsiu. It also breeds in 

 the Islands of Bermuda. 



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