BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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VIREO NOVEBORACENSIS NOVEBORACENSIS (Gmelin). 

 WHITE-EYED VIKEO. 



Adults {sexes alihe). — Above plain greenish olive or dull olive-green, 

 usually passing into grayish on hindneck; wings and tail dusky grayish 

 brown with light olive-green edgings, the middle and greater wing- 

 coverts rather broadly tipped with pale yellow or yellowish white, pro- 

 ducing two distinct bands across wing, the tertials broadly edged with 

 the same (except in worn plumage) ; broad supraloral stripe and nar- 

 row orbital ring canary or sulphur yellow; a dusky loral streak, 

 extending to anterior angle of eye, where interrupting the yellowish 

 orbital ring; auricular and suborbital regions and sides of neck grayish 

 olive or olive-gray, fading into very pale gray or grayish white on 

 malar region; chin, throat, median portion of chest and breast, abdo- 

 men, and under tail-coverts dull white, passing laterally into pale 

 yellow, more or less washed with olive, on sides and flanks, the chest 

 and breast more or less tinged with yellow or grayish (or both), the 

 anal region and shorter under tail-coverts also tinged with yellow; 

 axillars and under wing-coverts pale yellow (primrose) or yellowish 

 white; inner webs of remiges edged with grayish white; maxilla black, 

 with paler tomia; mandible grayish black in dried skins, bluish gray in 

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



Young. — Similar to adults, but upper parts duller and browner; 

 supraloral stripe and orbital ring grayish white or brownish white, 

 instead of yellow; chin, throat, and chest very pale gray or brownish 

 gray; sides and flanks pale oliv^e-j'ellow; iris brownish. 



A&uU male.— Length (skins), 108-122 (116.1); wing, 60-65 (61.4); 

 tail, 46-63 (49); exposed culmen, 9.5-11 (10.1); tarsus, 18-20 (19.5); 

 middle toe, 9-11 (10.2)." 



Aokilt female.— Length, (skins), 108-121 (114.3); wing, 67-63 (60.6); 

 tail, 44-51 (47.3); exposed culmen, 9.5-11 (10.1); tarsus, 18.5-21 (19.7); 

 middle toe, 10-11 (10.4).' 



"Eighteen specimens. 

 6 Thirteen specimens. 

 Eastern and western specimens compare in average measurements as follows: 



