204 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Club, vii, 1882, 145 (Tucson, Arizona, Apr. 26; measurements, etc.) ; Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, 1902, 177 (Triunfo, Lower California, 1 spec, Apr.-, 

 San Jos6 del Cabo, 1 spec, Nov. 10).— Bblmng, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 

 1883, 343 (Guaymas, Sonora).— Gadow, Oat. Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 

 300.— Scott, Auk, ii, 1885, 321-326 (full biography).— American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 634.— Morcom, Bull. Ridgw. Orn. Club, 

 no. 2, 1887, 51 (Cajon Pass, s. California, breeding; descr. nest).— Cooke, 

 Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 237 (w. Texas.).— Anthony, Auk, ix, 1892,3*7 

 (Apache, s. w. New Mexico).— Fisher, North Am. Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 117 

 (Grapevine Mts., s. Nevada) .—Nehbling, Our Native Birds, etc, i, 1893, 

 313.— Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 400. 



Vireo mcinior californicus Stephens, Auk, vii, Apr., 1890, 159 (Riverside, s. Cali- 

 fornia; coll. F. Stephens). 



[Vireo] mcinior Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 381, no. 5755.— Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 

 1872, 122. 



Vlireol mcinior Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 334.— Ridgw ay, Man. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1887, 478. 



VIREO NANUS Nelson 

 DWARF VIREO. 



Adult malfi. — Above plain deep mouse gray, slightly tinged with 

 olive-green, especially on rump and upper tail-coverts; wings and tail 

 dusky with light yellowish olive-green edgings, these pale olive-gray 

 on remiges; middle and greater wing-coverts tipped with grayish 

 white, producing two narrow but rather distinct bands across wing; 

 superciliary stripe, ending a little behind eye, grayish white; rest of 

 sides of head similar in color to pileum but slightly paler; under parts 

 white, faintly shaded with grayish on chest and sides of breast, but 

 not on hinder portion of sides nor on flanks; axillars and under wing- 

 coverts yellowish white; inner webs of remiges and rectrices edged 

 with yellowish white; bill black; legs and feet dusky (in dried skins); 

 length (skin), 98; wing, 53; tail, 43; exposed culmen, 10; tarsus, 17; 



middle toe, 9. " 



Southwestern Mexico, in State of Michoacan (Querendaro). 



Vireo namis Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xii. Mar. 24, 1898, 59 (Querendaro, 

 Michoacan; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



VIREO BELLII BELLII Audubon. 

 BELL'S VIREO. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Pileum and hindneck dull grayish brown, 

 sometimes tinged with olive; rest of upper parts dull olive-green or 

 greenish olive, rather brighter on rump and upper tail-coverts; wings 

 and tail deep grayish brown (hair brown) with paler edgings, these 

 more olive-greenish on outer webs of rectrices; middle and greater 

 wing-coverts (except the innermost) tipped with dull whitish, form- 



« Measurements of the type specimens. 



