506 SYNONYMY OF VLREO SOLITARIUS 



fornia.) Gamb. Journ. Phila. Acad. i. 1847, 44 (California). Bp. CA. i. l&iO, 330.- 

 Cass. Pr. Phila, Acad. 1851, 150. Thomps. Vermont, 1853, 18. Hoy, Pr. Phila. Acad. 

 1853, 309 (Wisconsin). Eennic.Tr. Illinois Agric. Soc. i. 1853, 582. Pratien, ibid. 603. 

 Oundl. J. f. 0. 1855, 468 (Cuba). Scl. PZS. 1856, 298 (Mexico). Brew. Pr. Boat. Soc. vi. 

 1856, 6 (Massachusetts). Putn. Pr. Ess. Inst. i. 1856, 213 (same). Bd. B"NA. 1858, 

 340. Scl. PZS. 1859, 375 (Oaxaca) ; 360 (Xalapa). Xant. Pr. Phila. Acad. 1859, 191 

 (California). Willis, Smiths. Hep. for 1858, 1859, 282 (Nova Scotia). Coop. t Suckl. 

 NHWT. 1860, 189 (Washington Territory) Wheat. Ohio Agric. Eep. for 1860, 1861, 

 365. S. & S. Ibis, 1860, 31 (Coban, Vera Paz). Brew. Pr. Bost. Soc. vii. 1860, 307 

 (Cuba). Barn. Smiths. Rep. for 1860, 1861, 436 (Pennsylvania). Coues & Prent. 

 Smiths. Rep. for 1861, 1862, 410. Verr. Pr. Ess. Inst. iii. 1862, 148 (Maine). Board/n. 

 Pr. Bost. Soc. ix. 1862, 126 (Maine). Hoy, Smiths. Rep. for 1864. 1865, 437 (Missouri). 

 Dress. Ibis, 1865, 481 (San Antonio, Tex.). Mcllwr. Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1806,87 (Canada 

 West). Lawr. Ann. Lye. K Y. viii. 1866, 285 (New York). Brown, Ibis, 1868, 421 

 (Vancouver). Cows, Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1868, 278 (New England) Cones. Pr. Bost. Soc. 

 xii. 1868, 111 (South Carolina). Coop. Am. Nat. iii. 1869, 479. Turnb. B. E. Pa. 1869, 

 26; Phila. ed. id. -Cope, Am. Nat. iv. 170, 395-6. Trippe, Pr. Ess. Inst.vi. 171, 117 

 (Minnesota, breeding). Coues, Key, 1872, 121, f. 66. Gundl. J. f. 0. 1872, 403 (Cuba). 

 Mayn. Pr. Bost. Soc. xiv. 1872, 370. Gentry, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1873,354 (nest).- Merr. 

 Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 7-8. Coop. Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 17. Coues, Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 

 541. Coues, BNW. 1874, W.Hcnsh. List B. Ariz. 1875, 157 (Arizona). Hensh. Zool. 

 Expl. TV. 100 M.erid. 1875, 222 (Arizona, as migrant, with both var. catusini and var. plum- 

 beus). Gentry, Life-Hist. 1876, 223. Minot, BNE. 1877, \te.-Brewkt. Aim. Lye. N. Y. 

 xi. 1875, 140 (Virginia). McCauley, Bull. U. S. Geol. Suiv. iii. u. 3, 1877, 6b2 (Texas). 



Vireo solitiareus, Mayn. Pr. Bost. 

 Soc. xiv. 1872,370. 



Vicro soliiarius, Gregg, Pr. El- 

 mirn Acad. 1870, . 



tanius solitarius, Licht. ' Preis- 

 Verz. Mex. Vog. 1830, a" ; 

 J. 0.1863,58. 



Vireo (Lanivireo) solitarius, Bd. 

 1858. Gundl. J. f. O. 1861, 



324 (Cuba). Allen, Pr. Ess. 



FIG. 59. Vireo sohtanus, natural size. 

 Inst. iv. 18o4, 67. 



Vireo (Lanivireo) solitaria, Ridgw. Ann. Lye. N. Y. x. 1874, 370 (Illinois). 



Vireosylvia solitaria, Bd. Rev. AB. 1866, 347, fig. Coop. B. Cal. i. 1870, 117 . Sumich. Mem. 

 Bost. Soc. i. 1869, 548 (Vera Cruz). 



LaniTirco SOlitarius, Allen, Am. 3fat. iii. 1869, 507, 579. B B. <& R. NAB. i. 1874, 373, pi. 17, 

 f. 8. Brew. Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1875, 440. Lawr. Bull. Nat. Mus. n. 4, 1876, 18 (Tehuan- 

 tepec). Ridgw. Rep. Expl. 40th Par. iv. pt. iii. 1877, 450 (Humboldt Valley). 



Solitary Flycatcher, Steph. L c. 



Solitary or Blue-beaded Vireo or Greenlet, Authors. 



HAD. The whole of the United States, in wooded regions, and Canada. 

 South through Mexico to Central America. Cuba. Breeds at large ? in the 

 United States, but chiefly north of the 40th parallel; winters extraliinital, 

 with some probable exceptions. 



CH. SP. J 9 Eemigibus x. Flavo-olivaceus, vertice et late- 

 ribus capltis cceruleo-plumbeis^ orbitis albis, loris fuscis ; infra 

 albus, lateribus et axillaribus flavicantibus ; alls flavldalbido 

 limbatis necnon bifasciatis. 



$ , adult : A large and very stoutly-built species, with short, stout bill, 

 a spurious primary one-fourth as long as the second quill, decided contrast 

 betwixt colors of back and head, and conspicuous wing-bars. Upper parts 

 yellowish-olive or olive-green (same shade as in V. olivaceus), the crown 

 and sides of the head bluish-ashy in marked contrast, with a white lino 



