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BEVIKVV OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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the dusky edges of the cap, and the dark lurol line, relieved uguiiiht 

 a wliitiuh superciliary stripe, ho distinct in oiivatra and aijilis, lK-iti|^ 

 scarcely or luucli less appreciable in Jiavoviridis. Tlie wings are 

 more rounded in agilis ; the first quill considerably uhurter tliuu 

 fifth, instead of being nearly equal or lunger. 



This species, whether what 1 describe as V. chivi be the same or 

 not, scarcely extends north of Continental South America — the skin 

 from Guatemala, just mentioned, being almost the only one quoted, 

 and the locality of this may possibly be erroneous, even if the hiid he 

 not of a diflerent species. I have never found any indieiilion of the 

 occurrence of any bird of this type in the West Indies or North 

 America in recent times.* 



It is quite probable that the careful comparison of a larger number 

 of good specimens of Virevs of the type of chivi and agiUs niny re- 

 sult in establishing the existence of one or two more species; that 

 from " 'Guatemala" (No. 8,050), at least, is different in several |)oiiits 

 from the rest, and I had provisionally named it before concluiliiig 

 that it was best to allow the decision of the question to rest upou 

 the examination of a better series. 



(8,0.jO.) " Perhapn erroneoua locality." 



Yireosylvia philadelpbica* 



Vireosylvia phtladelphica, CAgsiN, Pr. A. N So. V, Feb. 18.^7, K's.—h. 

 YI, pi. i, fig. 1 (Philadelphia). — Sclateb & Salvin, Ibis, I, 1859, 



' I have never met with a bird agreeing with the description of Vireo bar- 

 Iramii, of Audubon. The proportions of the body and the quills are mxivh as 

 in V. aijilis. The tail, however, is said to be "wood-brown margined with 

 paler," instead of olivaceous ; and the lower parts "white, the breast tinged 

 with pale yellow, and the throat and sides with gray," instead of being white 

 below ; the crissnm bright sulphur yellow, the flanks yellowish-olire. The 

 crown (not the nape) is "deep gray, bordered by a line of blackisli," which 

 separates it from all known North American species, excepting V. olivaceus 

 and bnrbatnlus, from which the proportions of the quiUa are entirely different. 



If, therefore, this species be really as described by Audnbon, it has been 

 entirely unnoticed since his time, although distinct, and should be carefully 

 sought for by ornithologists in the l!4ist(.ru United States. 



