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Virco bell!, Bp CA. i. 1850, 330. Bd. Rep. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 328. Bd. BNA. 1858, 337. 

 Cowes.Ibis, 1865, 158 (Kansas). Dress. Ibis, 1865, 481 (San Antonio, Tex.). Butch. 

 Pr. Phila. Acad. 18C8, 149 (Texas). Coues, Am. Xat. vi. 1871, 197. A lien, Am. Nat. vii. 



1873, 363. Trippe, Am. 

 Nat. viL 1873, 498. 

 B.B.& R. NAB. i. 1874, 

 389, pi. 17, f. 13. Ames, 



Bull. Minnesota Acad. A ' N. A ~^ 



1874, 57 (perhaps). 

 Hcnsh. Rep. Orn. Specs. 

 1874, 105 (Gila River). 

 H<nsh. List B. Ariz. 



1875, 157 (Arizona, to- FlQ ^_ Yireo lellij natur al size, 

 g ether with pusilluj). 



Hensh. ZooL Expl. W. 100 Merid. 1875, 225. Nels. Bull. Nutt. Club, i. 1876, 42 (Illinois, 

 abundant). Lawr. Bull. Nat. Mus. n. 4, 1876, 18 (Tehuantepec). 

 Bell's Vlreo or Greenlet, Aud. 1. c., and Authors. 



HAB. Western portions of the United States, and Mexico. East to 

 Illinois (Ridgway, Nelson); Dakota (Audubon) ; Kansas and Nebraska (Coues, 

 Goss) ; Iowa (Trippe) ; Missouri (Hoy) ; ? Minnesota (Ames) ; Texas (Dresser, 

 Butcher, Heermann) ; Arizona (Henshaw) ; California ( Cooper) ; Tehuantepec 

 (Sumichrast). 



CH. SP. $ 9 Eemigibus x. Flavo-olivaceus vertice aliquan- 

 tulum obscuriore, infr&flaricans, gulaalbida; lorisfuscis, orbitis 

 albis, alls flavo-albido limbatis etfasciatis, caudd longioribus. 



$ $ : A very small species, quite a miniature of V. gilvus, the markings 

 of the head in particular being much the same ; but readily distinguished 

 by its smaller size, decidedly yellowish under parts, well-marked wing-bar, 

 aud different wing-formula. Above yellowish-olive or olive-green (much 

 as in olivaceus), darker and ashier on the head, but without abrupt contrast, 

 brightest on the rump. Below decidedly yellowish, olive-shaded on the 

 sides, whitening on the throat and belly. A white line from nostril to and 

 around the eye, but scarcely or not prolonged behind as in gilvus ; lores 

 dusky. Wings and tail dusky, with considerable edging of the color 

 of the back, or whitish ; the wings with two whitish cross-bars, that on the 

 end of the greater coverts stronger than the other. Length, under 5 inches ; 

 wing, 2-J- ; tail, less ; tarsus, f . 



BELL'S Greenlet is one of the several species which 

 Audubon discovered on his excursion to the Upper 

 Missouri, and published in the Appendix to the last volume 

 of the octavo reprint of his splendid work, with Harris's 

 Finch, LeGonte's, Baird's, Smith's, and Shattuck's Buntings, 

 Brewer's Blackbird, Ayres's Woodpecker, Nuttall's Wood- 

 pecker, Sprague's Lark, and other species, dedicated by the 

 amiable naturalist to his friends, some of whom were his com- 

 panions on that memorable journey. He found it as far up 

 the river as the mouth of the Yellowstone, and noted that its 

 resorts were the shrubbery of the bottom-lands, as those of 



