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and flanks) white; sides and flanks broadly and indistinctly striped 

 with pale grayish olive and very pale sulphur yellow; inner webs of 

 remiges and rectrices broadly edged with white; maxilla black; man- 

 dible blackish at tip, basally grayish (pale bluish gray or grayish blue 

 in life); iris brown; legs and feet dusky (grayish blue in life). 



Young. — Similar to adults, but gray of upper parts more brownish 

 (mouse gray), the sides and flanks white. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 125-138 (130.4); wing, 77-82 (79.8); 

 tail, 56-61 (58.2); exposed culmen, 11-12 (11.1); tarsus, 19-20 (19.8); 

 middle toe, 10-12 (11.2). « 



Adult female.— 'Length (skins), 124-134 (129.2); wing, 77-87 (80.8); 

 tail, 56-60 (57.8); exposed culmen, 11-12 (11.2); tarsus, 19-20 (19.7); 

 middle toe, 11-12.6 (11.7).« 



Kocky Mountain district of United States and mountains of Mexico; 

 breeding from southern Wyoming (Black Hills, Laramie Peak, etc.), 

 northern Utah (Wasatch Mountains), and northeastern Nevada (East 

 Humboldt Mountains), southward to Arizona (MogoUon Mountains, 

 Santa Catalina range, etc.), Chihuahua, western Texas (mountains 

 west of Pecos Eiver), and Vera Cruz (Las Vegas, 8,000 feet altitude); 

 south in winter to southern Mexico, in States of Oaxaca, Guerrero 

 (Tlalixtaquilla), and Colima (plains of Colima). Accidental in New 

 -.York (Madison County, one specimen, September 24, 1893) ? 



Vireo'^ plumbeus Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 74 (Fort Whipple, Ari- 

 zona; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Birds Col. Val., 1878, 515.— Allen, Am. Nat., 

 vi, 1872, 345 (Colorado).— Meeeiam, Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr, for 1872 

 (1873), 714 (Utah).— Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 272 (plains 

 of Colima); — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881, 198 

 (Oaxaca). 



Vireosylma plumbea Baied, Review Am. Birds, May, 1866, 349 (Laramie Peak, 

 Wyoming; Fort Whipple, Arizona; plains of Colima, a. w. Mexico). — Coopee, 

 Orn. Cal., 1870, 119 (Rocky Mts. ).— Aiken, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xv, 1872, 

 198 (Colorado). 



{_Vireosylvia] plumbea Sclatee and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 12. 



Lanivireo plumbeus Ridgway, Field and Forest, iii. May, 1877, 197 (Colorado); 

 Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 451 (Ruby and e. Humboldt Mts., Nevada, breed- 

 ing)- 



Lanivireo plumbea Baied, Beewbe, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 



pi. 17, flg. 10. 

 Vireo solitarius, var. plumbeus Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. ZooL, iii, 1872, 149, 176 



(Colorado).— CouES, Birds N. W., 1874, 100. 

 Vireo solitarius . . . var. plumbeus Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 127a. — Yaeeow 



and Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1874, 12 (Wasatch Mts. 



and Meadow Creek, Utah). — Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 



1874, 43 (Utah), 77 (Fort Garland, Colorado, habits, nest and eggs, etc.), 105 



(Neutria, New Mexico, July 19, and Apache, Arizona, Sept. 3); Zool. Exp. 



W. 100th Merid., 1875, 224 (Wasatch Mts., Utah, etc.; habits, etc.). 

 Lanivireo solitaria var. plumbea Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Nov., 1873, 170, 



in text, 172 (Wasatch Mts., near Salt Lake City; breeding). 



" Ten specimens. 



