196 VIEEONID^. 



adorned. The eggs when fresh have a roseate tint to the white ground-colour ; and 

 they are more or less boldly marked with blotches of dark roseate brown ^^. 



d'. Memeoc spurius ohvius, oculorum ambitus et gula alba. 

 10. Vireo solitarius. 



Muscicapa solitaria, Wils. Am. Orn. ii. p. 143, t. 17. f. 6'. 



Vireo solitarius, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 298 ' ; 1859, pp. 363 ', 375 '; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 31' ; 



Dresser, Ibis, 1865, p. 481'; Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 272'; Ooues, B. Col. Vail. 



i. p. 505"; Gundl. Orn. Cub. p. 56 \ 

 Vireosylvia solitaria, Baird, Rev. Am. B. i. p. 347'°; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 548 ". 

 Lanivireo solitaria, Baird, Brew. & Ridgw. N. Am. B. i. p. 373''; Lawr. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



no. 4, p. 18 ". 

 Lanius solitarius, Licht. Preis-Verz. mex. Vog. p. 2" (cf. J. Orn. 1863, p. 58). 

 Vireosylvia propinqua, Baird, Rev. Am. B. i. p. 348"? 



Supra flavo-olivaoeus, pileo et capitis lateribus plumbeis ; alis et cauda nigris albido limbatis, Ulis albido bifas- 

 ciatis, striis a naribus oculorum ambitu conjunclis albis ; subtus albus, bypochondriis flavis ; rostro et 

 pedibus plumbeis. Long, tota 5-0, alse 2-85, caudae 2-0, rostri a rictu 0-65, tarsi 0-75. (Descr. maris ex 

 Volcan de Puego, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Hob. United States generally ^^ and Canada ^ Texas ^. — Mexico (i>ej?pe ^° ^^ SalW^), 

 Mazatlan {Grayson'^), Jalapa {de Oca^), Orizaba (Sumichrast ^° ^^, £otteri^% 

 Talea [Boucard ^), Santa Efigenia, Tehuantepec, Gineta Mountains {Sumichrast ^^) ; 

 Guatemala, Coban ^ i^, Cahabon, Volcan de Fuego, Volcan de Agua {0. S. & 

 F. B. (?.).— Cuba 9. 



A winter visitant to Mexico and Guatemala, beyond which latter country it does not 

 appear to pass. Here, however, it is common in the mountainous parts at elevations 

 varying from 7000 to 8000 feet in the great volcanoes of Agua and Fuego, to 4300 feet 

 at Coban, and even to the low level of Cahabon, which lies at an elevation of less than 

 1000 feet above the sea. In the neighbourhood of Coban it is very abundant, and is 

 one of the birds that falls a prey to the blowpipes of the boys of the town, the outskirts 

 of which it frequents. 



The occurrence of this species in Cuba is confined to a single instance, when 

 Dr. Gundlach shot a specimen near Cardenas at the end of March 1844. 



In North America V. solitarius is very widely distributed ; but in the more southern 

 States it is known only as a bird of passage, though Dr. Cones thinks that some retire 

 to the higher mountains of Colorado to breed. But its breeding-quarters lie chiefly to 

 the north of the fortieth parallel of latitude ^. 



Brewer describes several nests taken in Massachusetts, which varied considerably in 

 their structure, some being loose and others more compact, but all suspended to the 

 twigs to which they were attached, as is usual with the members of this family of 

 birds. The eggs, like those of other large Vireos, are pure white speckled with reddish, 



