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CHAEACTKES OF VIEEO OLIVACEUS 



Kefl-fy'd Ply-Catcher, Mnscicapa oculls mbrls, Gates. Car. i. 1771, 54, pi. 54 (lower flg.). 

 Olive-coloured Flycatcher, Sdw. "Gl. 93,pl.253". 



Gobe-monche de la Jamalque, MnsclcapaJamalceii8lg,£m«.ii.lS60,4l0,n.37 (inpart). 

 Red-eyed Flycatcher, Perm. AZ. ii. 1785, 387, u. in.—La(h. "Syn. iL 351, n. 5l".—SUpK 



Gen. Zool. x. 1817, 379. 

 MoucberoUe olire, Le Maine, Ois. Canad. 1861, 160. 

 Red-eyed Tlreo, or Greenlet, Aud. di Authors. 



Hab. — Chiefly Eastern North America to Hudson's Bay; Greenland (Eein- 

 liardt). West, however, to the Eocky Mountains, and even beycnd ; Wash- 

 ington Territory (Kenmerly) ; Utah (Allen). South to New Orenada and 

 Trinidad {Finsch, PZS. 1870, 565). Cuba alone of the West Indies. In Mex- 

 ico, chiefly replaced by S. flavoviridis (Xalapa, Sclater). Extremely abundant 

 in Eastern United States. Breeds at large in its North American range, and 

 ■winters from Florida southward. Accidental in England (see the references 

 in foregoing synonymy). 



Fig. 56. — Yireo olivaceuB, natural size. 



Oh. sp. — (J 9 Remigibus ix. Flavo-olivaceus, alls catiddque 

 fuscis flavo-olivaceo livibatis ; infrh albus, lateribus vix virescm- 

 tibus; pileo cinereo-plumbeofusco limbato, striga superciliari alba : 

 loris plumbeo-fuscis; iridibus rubris. 



S 9 : Entire upper parts and the edgings of the dusky -wings and tail uni- 

 form yellowish-olive, extending on the sides of the neck and breast, but 

 weU defined against the color of the crown. No bars across ends of wing- 

 coverts. Beneath pure white, a little shaded with greenish-yellow along 

 the sides ; no dusky maxillary stripes. Cap ashy-plumbeous, bordered on 

 each side with a dusky line. A broad white superciliary stripe ftom nostrils 

 over the eye and ear ; below this a dusky loral line prolonged through the 

 eye; lower eyelid whitish. Bill dusky plumbeous above, pale horn-color 

 below; feet plumbeous ; iris red. No obvious spurious first primary. Length, 

 extremes, 5|-6J, generally about 6; extent, 9i-10} ; wing, 3-3 J; tail, 2J-2J; 

 bill along culmen, over ^ ; tarsus, f . 



The sexes are indistinguishable, and the young resemble the old very 

 closely. Autumnal specimens, of both old and young, are more brightly 

 colored than old ones, with more decided yellowish-green shading on the 

 sides below, sometimes extended on the orissum. The young have the eyes 

 less decidedly red — rather reddish-brown. The species is readily recognized 

 by its large size, long bill, apparently only nine primaries, no maxillary 

 stripes, red eyes, and peculiar head-markings as above given. It is the only 

 species of its particular sub-group known to inhabit the West, though a 

 closely allied one, F. flavoviridis, has occured just over our soathern border. 



