. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North America; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. VIRE() —THE VIREOS. 393 there were three egus of the Vireo, and one of a Molnfhrus {ohscurus ?). The I'oriner were of a hri^ht crystalline whiteness, marked with very minute and hardly discernihle spots of red, and measure .611 hy .oG of an inch. The egg of the Mo/ofhrua, except in its much smaller size, is hardly distin- guishable from those of the common M. ijccuris, and measures .75 by .oG of an inch. In the o
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North America; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. VIRE() —THE VIREOS. 393 there were three egus of the Vireo, and one of a Molnfhrus {ohscurus ?). The I'oriner were of a hri^ht crystalline whiteness, marked with very minute and hardly discernihle spots of red, and measure .611 hy .oG of an inch. The egg of the Mo/ofhrua, except in its much smaller size, is hardly distin- guishable from those of the common M. ijccuris, and measures .75 by .oG of an inch. In the other nest were also three eggs of the Yireo. They corresf)ond in size, but are much more distinctly marked with hirger spots of a dark red and reddish-brown. In this nest there is a somewhat larger proportion of fine strips of inner bark, and mixed with these are also a few silky insect cocoons, by means of M'hich the nest is firmly bound around the twigs from which the whole is suspended. Vireo vicinior, Coles. ASIZOKA VIBEO. Vireo vicinior, CorES, Pr. A. X. Sc. Pliila. 18(56.—Baiud, Rev. Am. B. 361. — , Illust. Birds N. A. I, vii. — C'oupek, Oru. Cal. 1, 1870, 125. Sp. Ciiau. (No. 40,007 ^.) Bill stout, considerably compressed and deep. Wings moderately pointed, about ctiual to tail, which is decidedly graduated; first quill rather more than half the second, -which al)OUt equals ninth and the secondaries ; the fcMuth and and fifth lonsrest. Tarsus considi-rablv longer than middle toe and claw ; lateral toes quite conspicuous for their dispropor- tion, the inner claw reaching only tol>aseof outer, and falling short of base of middle; the terminal digit of inner toe icaching only to end of second Joint of middle toe. Upper parts, with sides of head and neck, ashy or light plimibeous, faintly oli- vaceous on rump. Beneath white ; slightly ashy on sides of Ijreast. Flanks and in- side of wings showing a faint trace of yel- low, only appreciaVde on raising the
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