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66. A superciliary stripe of yellow. (Central Colombia.) 



Vireolanius eximiua (extralimital)« 

 aa. Pileum and hindneck gray; rest of upper parts olive-green; under parts white, 

 with chestnut across chest and along sides. (Southern Mexico to Guatemala.) 



Vireolanius melitophrys (p. 225) 



VIREOLANIUS PULCHELLUS PULCHELLUS Sclater and Salvin. 

 GREEK SHRIEE-VIREO. 



Adults (sexes alike).^ — Pileum and hindneck cerulean blue (more 

 verditer blue in worn plumage), the center of crown usually somewhat 

 intermixed with green, occasionally with a well-defined patch of that 

 color; rest of upper parts, together with sides of head (including 

 superciliary region) and neck, bright parrot green; chin and throat 

 yellow (sulphur to lemon) ;" rest of under parts light yellowish green 

 (apple green), deeper green on sides and flanks; under wing-coverts, 

 axillars, and inner edge of remiges light yellow (sulphur to canary) ; 

 under tail-coverts greenish j^ellow; maxilla dusky (bluish gray in life?), 

 becoming black terminally; mandible pale gra3dsh (grayish blue or 

 bluish gray in life?); legs and feet horn color (bluish gray or grayish 

 blue in life?); length (skins), 125-149 (132.6); wing, 70-77 (72.9); tail, 

 48-59 (51.1); exposed culmen, 15.5-19 (17.8); tarsus, 21-23 (21.9); 

 middle toe, 10-12 (11.6). <^ 



Southern Mexico, in State of Vera Cruz (Mirador; Buena Vista), and 

 highlands of Guatemala (Choctum; mountains of Rasche; Savana 

 Grande; Volcan de Agua, above San Diego). 



Vireolanius pulchellus Sclater and S.\lvin, Ibis, ser. i, i, Jan., 1859, 12 (Guate- 

 mala; coll. Brit. Mus.); Exotic Orn., pt. 1, 15, pi. 8.— Salvin, Ibis, 1861, 147 

 (mts. near Lanquin, Guatemala); 1878, 443, in text. — Sclater, Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, 45 (Choctum, Vera Paz, Guatemala). — Baird, Review Am. 

 Birds, 1866, 397, part (Mirador, Vera Cruz; Choctum, Guatemala). — Bou- 



« Vireolanius emmius Baird, Review Am. Birds, May, 1866„398 (Bogota, Colombia; 

 coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. ); Sclater and Salvin, Exotic Orn., 1869, note topi. 8; 

 Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 316. — Vireolanius icterophrys (not of Bona- 

 parte) Sclater, Proe. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 151, pi. 103. 



6 Among a series of fourteen specimens only one has the sex determined by the 

 collector, consequently I am unable to give separate measurements for the sexes, or 

 to state whether there is an average difference in brightness of coloration according 

 to sex. 



c Sometimes there is a more or less distinct indication of~ a yellow rictal streak. 

 One specimen, labeled "Central America," but without definite locality (no. 42597, 

 coll. U. S. Nat. Mus., received from J. G. Bell), is remarkable for having the green 

 entirely replaced by verditer blue and the yellow of throat and under wing-coverts 

 by white. Possibly it was preserved in alcohol before skinning. 



<«Nine specimens, those from Mexico and Guatemala, respectively, comparing in 

 average measurements as follows: .,6, 



