BIRDS OF NOHTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 201 



Adult female.'-hmgth (skins), 111-112 (111.6); wing, 56-57 (66.3); 

 tail, 49-50 (49.5); exposed culmen, 9-9.6 (9.2); tarsus, 18-19 (18.7); 

 middle toe, 10-10.5 (10.2).» 



Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles. 



Vireo noveboraceiimK (not Mumcapa noveboracensis Gmelin) Gossb, Birds Jamaica, 

 1847, 192. 



Vireo modestus Sclatee, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860, 462 (Jamaica; coll. P. L. 

 Sclater); 1861, 72, pi. 14, fig. 1; Oat. Am. Birds, 1862, 43.— Albrecht, Journ. 

 fiir Orn., 1862, 194.— March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 294.— Baird, 

 Review Am. Birds, 1866, 362.— Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 

 303. — CoKY, Auli, iii, 1886, 187 (synonomy and diagnosis); Birds W. I., 

 1889, 74 (do.); Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 17, 116, 130.— Field, Auk, xi, 1894, 

 127 (descr. nest). 



IVireo] modestus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 382, no. 5772. — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 12.— Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 10. 



Vlireo} modestus Newton (A. and E. ), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 106. 



VIREO HYPOCHRYSEUS HYPOCHRYSEUS Sclater. 

 GOLDEN VIREO, 



Adults {sexes alike). — Above plain yellowish olive-green (the occiput, 

 hindneck, and back tinged with gray in midsummer plumage); wings 

 and tail dark lirownish gray or hair bi'own with light yellowish olive- 

 green edgings, these becoming pale gray or grayish white on longer 

 primaries; broad superciliary' stripe, sides of head below eyes and 

 upper portion of auricular -region, and entire under parts, including 

 axillars and under wing-coverts, yellow (lemon or canary), the chest 

 very faintly, the sides and flanks more strongly, tinged with pale 

 olive-green; maxilla horn color, mandible paler; legs and feet horn 

 color or dusky (in dried skins). 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 118-132 (126.9); wing, 63-65.6 (64.5); 

 tail, 66-57 (56); exposed culmen, 12-13 (12.6); tarsus, 17.5-19 (18.3); 

 middle toe, 10-11 (10.7).* 



Adailt female.— Length (skins), 119-127 (128.2); wing, 68-63 (61.6); 

 tail, 54^57 (55); exposed culmen, 12; tarsus, 18-18.6 (18.1); middle 

 toe, 10.5-11 (10.9).'-- 



Western Mexico, in States of Chihuahua (Hacienda de San Rafael), 

 Sinaloa (Plomosas; Rosario), Jalisco (Barranca Ibarra; San Sebastian), 

 and Oaxaca (Quio tepee). 



Vireo hypochryseus Sclater, Proc, Zool. Soc. Lond., 1862, 369, pi. 46 (Mexico; 

 coll. P. L. Sclater) . — Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1866, 370, part. — Lawrence, 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 18 (Quiotepec, Oaxaca, Aug.). — Salvin 

 and GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881, 204, part. — Gadow, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 304, part. — Looms, Auk, xix, 1902, 88 (Roeario, 

 Sinaloa). 



a Three specimens. ^Seven specimens. 



" Five specimens. 



