BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 158* 



■ Faxon, Auk, xii, 1895, 84 (Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sept. 27).— Dwight, 

 Auk, xiv, 1897, 259, pi. 2, right-hand fig. (monographic). — Butler, Birds 

 Indiana, 1897, 1011 (breeding south to Starke and Carroll counties). — 

 Young, Auk, xv, 1898, 191 (breeding at Lansdown Station, Ontario; descr. 

 nest and eggs).— McLain, Auk, xvi, 1899, 359 (Ohio Co., West Virginia, 

 May 16). — Fleming, Auk, xviii, 1901, 43 (Parry Sound, n. Ontario; breed- 

 ing?).— Oliver, Auk, xix,' 1902, 206 (Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania, rare 

 migrant). 



[ Vireo} philadelphicus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 18S7, 120. 



Vlire.ol philadelphicus Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 102, 152 (n. e. Illi- 

 nois, May 15 to 25, Sept. 5 to 25, probably breeding 60 miles s. of Chicago). — 

 Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 332.— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 

 1887, 471. 



Vireo Philadelphia Isham, Auk, xix, 1902, 88 (Addison Co., Vermont, Sept. 19, 

 1900).— WoETHiNGTON, Auk, xix, 1902, 89 (Shelter I., New York, Sept. 

 18).— Howe, Suppl. Birds R. I., 1903, 20. 



Vireosylvia cohanenm Sclatbr, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860, 463 (Cohan, Guate- 

 mala; coll. P. L. Sclater); Ann. and Mag. N. H., 1861, 328 (do.); Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862. 44 (Coban and Tactic, Vera Paz) . 



VIREOSYLVA GILVA GILVA (Vieillot). 

 WARBLING VIREO. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Pileum and hindneck plain light mouse gray 

 or smoke gray, becoming more or less paler (and sometimes more 

 brownish) on forehead; back, scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts simi- 

 lar in color to pileum, but more or less (usually very faintly) tinged 

 with olive-green; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts light gray- 

 ish olive-green, or smoke gray tinged with olive-green; wings (except 

 lesser coverts) and tail deep brownish gray (approaching hair brown) 

 with pale brownish gray edgings, these slightlj^ tinged with olive- 

 green on secondaries and rectrices; inner webs of remiges and rectrices 

 more or less broadly edged with white; a superciliary stripe of dull 

 grayish white or brownish white extending considerably beyond eye; 

 auricular region and sides of neck pale buffy gray or pale buffy 

 brownish; under parts dull white medially, passing into pale buffy 

 olive or dull pale buffy j'ellowish on sides and flanks, the median under 

 parts sometimes tinged with this color; axillars and under wing- 

 coverts very pale primrose yellow or yellowish white; maxilla horn 

 brownish with paler tomia; martdible pale horn color (pale grayish 

 blue or bluish gray in life ?); iris brown; legs and feet dusky in dried 

 skins, pale grayish blue in life. 



Young {first phomage). — Pileum and hindneck plain pale grayish 

 buff; back, scapulars, lesser and middle wing-coverts, and rump light 

 buffy grayish or grayish buff; wings and tail as in adults, but greater 

 wing-coverts indistinctly tipped with dull brownish buff or pale buffy 

 olive; a very indistinct superciliary stripe of whitish or buffy whitish, 

 the lores and sides of head below eyes similar, passing into deeper 



