484 THE FAMILY VIREONID^ 



they may, I think, be properly dissociated, and form a family 

 by themselves. Some of the less typical extralimital forms 

 have occasionally been referred to the Tanagridm, with which 

 nine-primaried Oscines, however, no 

 relationship is obvious. The genus 

 Icteria is still associated by some lead- 

 ing ornithologists with the Vireonines, 

 but this form seems decidedly Tana- 

 groid or Sylvicoline. As here consti- 

 tuted, the Vireonidce are a family 

 FiB.ii.-AViveoiV.gUvus). peculiar to America, comprising six 

 or seven genera and some seventy alleged species, an unusual 

 proportion of which appear to be well established. Vireo, in its 

 broad sense, is the typical and principal genus, the only one 

 found in North America, and characteristic of that country, 

 though many other species occur in Middle and South America. 

 The leading extralitnital genera are Mylophilus, Gydarhis, and 

 Vireolanius, each of a number of species of Mexico and Central 

 and South America. Neocliloe brevipennis is a special Mex- 

 ican form. Laletes osburni is peculiar to Jamaica, being the 

 only exclusively West Indian genus, though several species of 

 Yireo are confined to the Antilles. To complete the list, 1 

 should mention the lately described Fhcenicomanes iora, of the 

 West Indies,* considered by Sharpe and Sclater as related to 

 Phoenicophilus. The notable genus Bulnsf is by some placed 

 in Vireonidce, by others referred to Ampelidw. 



I continue as heretofore to reler all the North American 

 species to the single genus Vireo, for reasons given under the 

 following head. 



Genus VIBEO Vieillot 



Mnscicapa, p., of earlier authors. 



Vireo, VieiU. Ois. Am. Sept. i. 1807, 83, (Type Mmdcapa noveboracenHs Gm.) — Bd. Eev. 



AB. 1866, 350 (monographic). 

 VlreosylTa, Bp. Comp. & Geog. List, 1838, 26 (evidently intended for Tireoeylvia). (Type 



Mugcicapa olivacea L.) — Bd. Eev. AB. 1866, 3-26 (monographic). 



* 1874. Shakpe, E. B. On a new Genus and Species of Bird from the West 

 Indies. < P. Z. S. xlii. 1874, pp. 427, 428, vroodco. pi. liv. 



Phosnieomanes iora. Considered related to Phcenicophilus, and referred with 

 the latter to Vireonidce rather than T(magrid<e. 



1 1851. Lafbesnaye, F. de. Snr I'oisean nomrn^ par. Brisson Taugara de 

 Saint-Domingue, Tanagra Dominicensis, Tanagra Dominica, par 

 Linn6, figur(5 par Buffon, pi, enl. 156, f. 2, et dont Vieillot a fait son 

 genre Esclave (Dulus), sons le nom de Dulus palmarum. <[ Eev. et 

 Mag. de Zool. iii. 1851, pp. 583-590. 



