. Review of American birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution: pt. 1 . Birds. VIEEOSYLVIA. 327 and olaw, with seven well-marked sontellse anteriorly. Outer lateral toe the longer, reaching beyond base of middle; claws much curved, compressed, 40089. Vireosylvia , acute. In the dried specimen entire basal joint of middle toe adherent to one and three-fourths joints of outer, and the whole basal joint of inner ; the ad- hesion externally extending indeed a little over the second joint of middle toe.'' ViREOSYiiViA, Bon. The following synopsis expresses the characters of the
. Review of American birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution: pt. 1 . Birds. VIEEOSYLVIA. 327 and olaw, with seven well-marked sontellse anteriorly. Outer lateral toe the longer, reaching beyond base of middle; claws much curved, compressed, 40089. Vireosylvia , acute. In the dried specimen entire basal joint of middle toe adherent to one and three-fourths joints of outer, and the whole basal joint of inner ; the ad- hesion externally extending indeed a little over the second joint of middle toe.'' ViREOSYiiViA, Bon. The following synopsis expresses the characters of the species of Vireosylvia as restricted :— Common Chakacteks.—All species olive above, white or yellowish beneath. An ashy or brownish cap, contrasting more or less abruptly with the olive back. A whitish superciliary stripe extending to the nape, and a dusky one to and behind the eye. No light bands on the coverts. Inside of wings (flanks sometimes) and orissum yellowish, otherwise usually white beneath. A. Bill lengthened; gape or commissure less than twice the distance from nostril to end of bill. No spurious primary. Cap ashy, in contrast with olive green of back, edged with dusky, forming a faint supra-ocular dark stripe. A dusky stripe on each sidfe of the chin. Superciliary stripe and cheeks, especially anterior to the eye, and the chin tinged with brown- ish-buff. Ash of head indistinctly defined, owing to a wash of olivaceous. Olive of ' In the following figures the left foot is always given, and from the outer side. 2 In the fresh bird the whole of the basal joint of the inner toe is adherent to the first phalanx of the middle, the membrane reaching a very little above the distal end of the latter. The basal joint of the outer, and more than half of the second joint are likewise adherent to the middle toe, the membrane extending to the middle of the second joint. The basal joints are thus united into a palm, not cleft at all. The upper surfaces of this palm are cover
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