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Fig. 61. Western W^arbling Vireo. 



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but not one of them all can rival the tenderness and softness of the liquid 

 strains of this modest vocalist. Not born to " waste its sweetness on the 

 desert air," the warbling vireo forsakes the depths of the woodland for the 

 park and orchard and shady street, where it glides through the foliage of 

 the tallest trees, the unseen mes-iciigcr of rest and peace to the busy, dusty 

 haunts of men. — Wils., v, 8J, pi. 42, 

 f. 2 ; NuTT., i, 309 ; Aud., iv, 1411, pi. 

 241 ; Bd., 335, and Rev. 342. gilvus. 

 Var. swAixsoNii. "Sunilar to V. (lilvus, but 

 smaller ; colors paler ; bill more depressed ; 

 upper mandible almost black ; 2d quill much 

 shorter than 6th." Baird, Rev. 343 ; Coop., 

 116 ; Elliot, pi. 7. Rocky Mountains to the 



Pacific, U. S. The Western form has been described as distinct, but I scarcely 

 think the characters assigned will be found constant. In one of my Arizona skius 

 , the second quill is lovger than it is in an Eastern specimen. 



Yelloiv-lhroated Vireo. Above, rich olive-green, crown the same or even 

 brighter, rump insensibly shading into bluish-ash; below, bright yellow, 



belly and crissum abruptly white, sides 

 anteriorly shaded with olive, posteriorly 

 with plumbeous ; extreme forehead, su- 

 perciliary line and ring round eye, yel- 

 low ; lores dusky ; wings dusky, with 

 the inner secondaries broadly white- 

 edged, aud two broad white bars across 

 tips of greater and median coverts ; tail 

 dusky, nearly all the feathers completely encircled with white edging; bill 

 and feet dark leaden blue ; no spuri(nis quill ; 5 J - 6 ; wing aliout 3 ; tail only 

 about 2J. A large, stout, highly-colored species, common in the woods of 

 the Eastern United States. WiLS., i, 117, pi. 7, f. 3 ; Nutt., i, 302 ; Aud., 



iv, 141, pi. 238; Bd., 341, and Rev. 34(3 flavifrons. 



->] Blue-headed, or Solitary Vireo. Above, olive-green, crown aud sides of 

 1 ^ head bluish-ash in marked contrast, with a broad white line from nostrils to 

 and around eye, and a dusky loral line ; below, white, flanks washed with 

 olivaceous, and axillars and crissum 

 pale yellow ; wings and tail dusky, 

 most of the feathers edged with white 

 or whitish, and two conspicuous bars 

 of the same across tips of middle and 

 greater coverts ; bill and feet blackish 

 horn-color. 5i - of ; wing 2f - 3 ; tail *^'''- '^"- -iii"«=-"«"^'«'^- "-^ solitary vireo. 



2-^-2^ ; spurious quill J-| long, about one-fourth as long as 2d. United 



Fuj. 05. Yellow-throated Vireo. 



States from Atlantic to Pacific, except perhaps Southern Rocky Mountains, 

 where replaced by the next species ; not rare, but not so common as oliva- 

 ceus, flavifrons and noveboracensis ; inhabits woodland. WiLS., ii, 143, pi. 



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