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VireosylTia olit'acea* 



Muscicapa olivtuea, Linn. S. N. I, 17G6, 327 (based on Edwabdp, tab. 

 253, and Catkbby, pi. 54). — Wilb. Am. Orn. II, 1810, ft'S, pi. xiii 

 fig. 3. — Lanius olivaceus, Licbt. Verz, 1823,49 (N. Auier.). — Virto 

 olivaceus, Vieill., Bon. Oba. Wila. 1826, 124.— Swains. F. B. A. II, 

 1831, 233.— AuD. Cm. Biog. II, pi. 150.— Ib. B. A. IV, pi. 243.— 

 Baird, Birds N. Am. IS.'iS, 331. — Vireosylvia oliv. Bon., Gt'Og. 

 Comp. List, 1838.— Ib. Consp. 1850, 329.— Reinhakdt, Vid. Med. 

 f. 1853, 1854, 82 (Greenland).— In. Ibis, III, 7.— Sclateh, P. Z. S. 

 1855,151 (Bogota) ; 1859, 137, 363 (Xalapa).— Ib. Catal. Am. Birds, 

 1861, 43, no. 261.— A. & E. Newton, Ibis, 1859, 14.1 —Sclateh & 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 12 (Guatemala). — Lawbenck, Ai N. Y. Lye. 

 VII, 1860, 246 (Cuba).— Ibis, 1864, 394 (Derby, Engl. May, 18.')9). 

 —Phyllomanes oliv. Cad. Mus. Hein. 1850-51, 63. — Ib. Jour. 1860, 

 404 (Costa Rica). — Gundl. Cab. Jour. 1861, 324 (Cuba ; very rare). 



fVireo vtrescens, Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. I, 1807, 84, pi. liii (Penna.). — 

 ?GuAY, Genera, I, 267, pi. Ixv. 



Vireo hogotensis, Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. VII, 1860, 227 (Bogota).— Law- 

 rence, Ann. N. Y. Lye. 1863 (Birds Panama, IV, No*. 378). 



Tluh. Whole of Eastern North America (Halifax, Greenland, Fort Simpson), 

 west to base of Rocky Mts., reaching Fort Bridger and still further northward 

 tj Bitterroot Mts. and Kootenay ; south to Panama and Bogota, in winter 

 (Xalapa only in Mexico); very rare in Cuba (only West Indian locality). 

 Accidental in England. 



(No. 1,418, % , Carlisle, Pa., May, 1844.) Upper parts olive green. Top of 

 head, from bill to nape, ash color. A white line from nostrils above and 

 beyond the eye, bordered above by a dusky line forming tlie edge of the ashy 

 cap, and below by a similar, perhap.'^ paler loral and post-ocnlar cheek stripe. 

 Beneath, including tibiae, white, with perhaps a tinge of olivaceous ash across 

 tlie breast ; the sides of neck like the back ; sides of the body with a faint 

 washofolivo. Axillars and crissum faintly tinged with sulphur yellow ; lining 

 of wings and its edge, the latter especially, nearly white. Quills blaekish- 



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Vireosylvia oliwicea. 



brown, edged externally, except at ends of primaries, with olive, internally 

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

 ternally with pale olivaceous-white. 

 Bill dusky above, pale below ; tarsi plumbeous ; iris red. 



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