BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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pale gray; maxilla dusky with paler tomia; mandible paler (grayish 

 ^*lue or bluish gray in life); iris brown; legs and feet dusky in dried 

 skins, grayish blue or bluish gray in life. 



I^OMfif/.— Texture of plumage looser and much softer than in adults; 

 coloration similar, but the gray of upper parts slightly more brownish, 

 white of under parts purer, and pale edgings to remiges and rectrices 

 and tips of greater coverts tinged with pale olive. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 120-129 (125.2); wing, 62-67 (64.8); 

 tail, 58-61 (58.5); exposed culmen, 9-10 (9.4); tarsus, 18.5-20 (19.1); 

 middle toe, 10-10.5 (10.1).« 



Adult female.— Ij&ngth. (skins), 120-125 (122.1); wing, 61-64 (62.5); 

 tail, 65-59 (57.2); exposed culmen, 9-11 (9.8); tarsus 18.5-20 (19.1); 

 middle toe, 10-11 (10.6).* 



Southern California, in San Bernardino, Riverside, and San Diego 

 counties, southern Nevada (Grapevine Mountains), Arizona and New 

 Mexico, to western Texas ;'^ southward into northwestern Mexico 

 (Guaymas, Sonora) and to Cape district of Lower California (Triunfo, 

 April; San Jose del Cabo, November). 



Vireo vieinior Codes, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 75 (Fort Whipple, Arizona; 

 coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Check List, 1873, no. 128; 2d ed., 1882, no. 180; 

 Birds Col. Val., 1878, 517.— Baied, Review Am. Birds, 1866, 361.— Cooper, 

 Am. Nat., iii, 1869, 479; Cm. Cal., 1870, 125 (Arizona).— Elliot, Illustr. 

 New and Unfig. N. Am. Birds, pt. i, 1869, pi. 7. — Baibd, Beewee, and 

 RiDGWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 393, pi. 17, fig. 7.— Henshaw, List 

 Birds Arizona, 1875, 157; Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 227 (Colorado 

 Chiquito, New Mexic'o; Camp Bowie and Camp Lowell, Arizona; habits, song, 

 etc. ). — Stephens, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 42 (mountains of San Diego 

 Co., California, 3,000 ft. up to pine belt), 93 (Gila R., New Mexico); Bull. 

 Ridgway Orn. Club, no. 2, 1887, 51 (Cajon Pass, s. California, breeding). — 

 RiDGWAY, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 147. — Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 



Twelve specimens. 

 6 Eleven specimens. 

 Specimens from separate geographic areas average, respectively, as follows: 



Measurements of the few specimens examined from southern California and the 

 Cape district are exactly matched by those of individuals in the Arizona series, and 

 I am unable to appreciate the minutest difference in coloration. 



"According to American Ornithologists' Union Check List. 



