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VIREO HUTTONI COGNATUS7 new subspecies.a 

 FRAZAR'S VIREO. 



Similar to V. h. stephensl, but wing- averaging decidedly shorter, 

 tarsus longer, and coloration paler. Adults with olive-gray of upper 

 parts slightly paler and greenish olive of rump and upper tail-coverts 

 much less pronounced; under parts whiter, the chest, etc., much Ichs 

 strongly tinged with olive-buff. Young with under tail-coverts, anal 

 region and lower abdomen much less strongly tinged with buil. 



Adult v//«/c.- -Length (skins), 110-115 (113.9); wing, 63-66 (64.8); 

 tail, 50-52(51.1); exposed culmen, 10-10.5 (10); tarsus, 18.5-20 (l!».l); 

 middle toe, 10-11 (10.6).^ 



Adult fciiiaIr.^'Lengt\i (skins), 109-117 (112.4); wing, 62-64 (62.9); 

 tail, 48.5-51 (60.1); exposed culmen, 9.6-10.5 (10); tarsus, 19; middle 

 toe, 10-10.5 (1().3).'' 



Cape San Lucas disti'ict of Lower California (Sierra de la Laguna: 

 Victoria Mountains); resident. 



Vireo huUoni. xtephensi (not of Brewster, 1882) Belding, Proc. V. 8. Xat. JIus., 

 vi, 1883, 347 (Victoria Mts., Lower California, at 3,000 ft.).— American 

 Ornithologists' Un'iox, Check List, 1886, no. 632a, part. — Bryant (W. E. ), 

 Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., 2d ser., ii, 1889, 807 (Victoria Mts.).— Brewster, Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. ZooL, xli, no. 1, 1902, 176 (San Jose del Eancho, Sierra de la 

 Laguna, Triunfo, etc.; crit. ). 



Vlireol huUoni stephen.ii Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 477, part. 



VIREO CARMIOLI Baird. 

 ' CARMIOL'S VIREO. 



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

 the wings and tail dull grayish black or dusky, with pale olive edgings; 

 middle and greater wing-coverts broadly tipped with pale j'cllow (pale 

 sulphur or primro,se), producing two broad bands across wing, and 

 tertials broadly edged with the same; superciliarj^ stripe (extending 

 to taut little beyond eye), and lower eyelid pale sulphur or primrose 

 yellow, usually more whitish anteriorly; a dusky anteorbital spot, 

 passing into grayish toward rictus; auricular region, suborbital region 

 (except lower eyelid), malar region, and sides of neck light olive or 

 greenish olive; chin and upper throat dull whitish tinged with olive- 

 yellowish; rest of under pai'ts sulphur yellow, tinged on sides and 

 flanks with yellowish olive; axillars and under wing-coverts sulphur 

 yellow; maxilla dark horn color; mandible paler; iris brown; legs and 

 feet dusky in dried skins (bluish gray or grajdsh blue in life ? ). 



« Type, no. 15527, coll. AVilliam Brewster, adult male, Sierra de la Laguna, Lower 

 California, May 5, 1887; M. Abbott Frazar. 

 6 Ten specimens. 

 « Seven specimens. 



