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SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. — PASSERES— OSCINES. 
olive outside, with whitish inside ; bill dusky above, pale below ; feet leaden-blue 5 eyes red ; 
no dusky maxillary streaks ; no apparent spurious quill. Little diiferent with age, sex, cr 
season ; young and fall birds the brightest colored, especially on the sides, crissum, and lining 
of wings. Large; length 5.75-6.25 ; extent 9.75-10.75 ; wing 3.00-3.33 ; tail 2.33-2.50 ; bill 
about 0.66; tarsus 0.75. E. N. Am.; N. to Hudson's Bay and even Greenland; W. some- 
times to Utah and Washington Territory ; breeds throughout its U. S. range, and winters from 
the Gulf States southward. In most places the most abundant species of the genus, in wood- 
land ; a voluble, tireless songster. 
171. V. flavivi'ridis. (Lat. flavus, yellow ; viridis, green. Fig. 190.) Yellow-GREEn Green- 
LET. Very similar to the last ; more yellowish below ; under wing- and tail-coverts decidedly 
yellow ; sides of body decidedly greenish -yellow. Texas and southward. 
Fig. 190.— V. flaviviridis, nsit. size. (From Baird.) Fig. 191.— V. a. barbatuhis, nat. size. (From Baird.) 
172. V. alti'loquus barba'tulus. (Lat. alius, high, loquus, speaking ; harhatulus, having a little 
beard. Fig. 191.) Black-whiskered Greenlet. Whip-tom-kelly. Similar to oliva- 
ceus ; distinguished by a narrow dusky maxillary line, or line of spots, on each side of the 
chin ; bill longer, 0.75-0.80 ; proportion of quills slightly different (see the figs.). Cuba, 
Bahamas, and casually in Florida. [V. altiloquus is the West Indian stock-form.] 
173. V. philadel'pliicus. (Gr. (pikeo), phileo, I love ; aSeX^ds, brother. Fig. 192.) Broth- 
erly-love Greenlet. Above, dull olive-green, brightening on the rump, fading insensibly 
into ashy on the crown, which is not bordered with blackish ; a dull white superciliary line ; 
below, palest possible yellowish, whitening on throat and belly, slightly olive-shaded on 
sides; sometimes a slight creamy or buffy shade throughout the under parts; no obvious wing- 
bars ; no apparent spurious quill. Length 4.80-5.10; extent 8.00-8.50 ; wing 2.66; tail 
2.25 ; bill hardly or about 0.50; tarsus 0.66. Eastern N. Am., strictly; N. to Hudson's Bay; 
a small, plainly -colored species, almost indistinguishable from gilvus except by apparent absence 
of a spurious quill; not very common in the Atlantic States, more so in the Mississippi Valley. 
Fig. 192. — V. pJdladelphicus, nat. size. (From Baird.) Fig. 193. — F. gilvus, nat. size. (From Baird.) 
174. V. gil'vus. (Lat. gilvus, yellowish. Figs. 188, 193.) Warbllng Greenlet. Colors pre- 
cisely as in the last species; spurious quill present and evident, i to i as long as the 2d primary. 
Length 5.50-6.00; extent 8.50-9.25 ; wing 2.80; tail 2.25; bill 0.40; tarsus 0.65. Eastern 
N. Am. to the high central plains, breeding throughout its range; wintering extrahmital; an 
abundant little bird and an exquisite songster. Its voice is not strong, and many birds excel 
it in brilliancy of execution ; but not one of them all can rival the tenderness and softness of 
