200 BULLETINS 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Young. — Above wood brown or Isabella color, the wings and tail as 

 in adults; below pale buffy yellow (straw yellow or primrose). 



Adult ma/e.- -Length (skins), 107-115 (112.3); wing, 64-67.5 (66); 

 tail, 45-51 (48.5); exposed culmen, 9-11 (9.7); tarsus, 19; middle toe, 

 10-11 (10.5)." 



Adult female.— hen^\i (skin), 109; wing, 63.5; tail, 48; exposed 

 culmen, 10; tarsus, 18.5; middle toe, 10.* 



.Highlands of Costa Rica (Dota; Pirris; Volcan de Irazu) and Chiri- 

 qui (Volcan de Chiriqui; Boquete). 



Vireo carmioli Baird, Review Am. Birds, May, 1866, 356 (Dota Mts., Costa Rica; 

 coll. I'. S. Nat. Mus.).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 97 (Dota 

 Mts.) .— Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 295 (Costa Rica).— Salvin and 

 GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881, 203, pi. 12, fig. 3 (Dota Mts. and 

 Volcan de IraziS, Costa Rica; Volcan de Chiriqui, Veragua).— Gadow, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 303.— Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 

 1887, 108 (Costa Rica). 

 Vireo mrmiolif Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1884, 411 (Pirris, Costa 



Rica; descr. ; crit. ). 

 [Vireo] carmioH Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 12. 

 Vlireo} (■(iriiiioli Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 383. 

 Vireo mpercHiari-f "Ridgway, MS." Cherrie, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, no. 

 855, Sept. 4, 1891, 340, in text (Pirris, s. w. Costa Rica; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. ). 



VIREO MODESTUS Sclater. 

 JAMAICAN VIREO. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Above plain greenish olive or grayish olive- 

 green; wings and tail dusky, with pale olive or oli\'e-green edgings,^ the 

 middle and greater wing-coverts tipped with pale olive-yellow or dull 

 yellowish white, forming two distinct bands across wing; sides of 

 head and neck similar in color to pileum, back, etc. , gradually becom- 

 ing paler toward throat, which, with chin and upper portion of lores, 

 are ver^^ pale yellowish olive-gray; rest of under parts very pale olive- 

 yellowish or straw yellow, the sides and flanks strongly washed with 

 pale greenish olive; axillars and under wing-coverts primrose j-ellow, 

 the latter more whitish; inner webs of remiges broadly edged with 

 white; maxilla horn brownish, darker at tip; mandible pale brownish 

 (in dried skins); iris white; legs and feet dusky in di"ied skins, "lead 

 blue, soles light orange " '' in life. 



Young (after first molt). — Similar to adults, as described above, but 

 upper parts more browish olive and under parts of body more buffy 

 yellowish (pale maize yellow). 



Adult mafe. -Length (skins), 100-117 (108.3); wing, 56-58 (56.5); 

 tail, 44-50 (47.6); exposed culmen, 8.6-9.5 (8.9); tarsus, 17-19.5 (18.6); 

 middle toe, 10-11.5 (10-8)." 



o Three specimens. "A. Newton, on label. 



6 One specimen. ^ Seven specimens. 



