. Review of American birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Instution. [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. VinEOSYLVIA. 341. 4304 VireoKylvM phUaMphiea. 12 (OnateniRla).â Vtrto jihiladelphinn', Hairp, Birds N. Am. 1858, 335, jl. 78, tig, 3. VireosifUiu cobunen»i», ticLATBU, P. Z. S. 18U0, 4ti3 (Cobau).âIn. Ann. Mag. N. H. 18U1, 328. Eah. Eabturn North America to Iludson's Bay and Maine, Bouth to Co8ta Rica aiid Ouaiemaia. Not recorded from Mexico or VVeat ludiea. (No. 2(l,643, ^.) Above dark olivy green, tiniied with pluiiiDeons a><li ex- cept on the rump; top of head and uape purer plumbeous
. Review of American birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Instution. [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. VinEOSYLVIA. 341. 4304 VireoKylvM phUaMphiea. 12 (OnateniRla).â Vtrto jihiladelphinn', Hairp, Birds N. Am. 1858, 335, jl. 78, tig, 3. VireosifUiu cobunen»i», ticLATBU, P. Z. S. 18U0, 4ti3 (Cobau).âIn. Ann. Mag. N. H. 18U1, 328. Eah. Eabturn North America to Iludson's Bay and Maine, Bouth to Co8ta Rica aiid Ouaiemaia. Not recorded from Mexico or VVeat ludiea. (No. 2(l,643, ^.) Above dark olivy green, tiniied with pluiiiDeons a><li ex- cept on the rump; top of head and uape purer plumbeous asli, not edged witli du!(ky, tlie line of demarcation in- distinct. Beueatli light Hulpliur yellow, paler and. almost white on chin and middle of abdomen; sides more olivaceous. A whitisti stripe froDi bill over eye, as alHO a patch beneath it and the eyelids; a dusky loral and poat-tHsular spot. Quills and reotrices brown, edged exter- nally with olive, internally with wliitish; the larger coverts with ⢠paler outer edges. Kill bifickish, paler plumbeous below. Legs plumbions. Sparious outer or first quill (neen in (jilva) wanting; the outer about e(|ual to 5th; 3d longest; 2d and 4th not much siiorter. (No. 20,(543, %,.) Total length, ; wing, ; tail, ; difference be- tween outer and longest primary, .28, of longest and innermost, .<)2; lengtli of hill from forehead, .54, from nostril, .30, along gape, .Gl; tarsus, .65 ; middle toe aud claw, .52; hind toe and claw, .44. Specimens vary somewhat in purity of tints, and especially in in- tensity of yellow of under parts, which color is deeper in autumnal skins. I ren^retthat I led Mr. Sclater into an error by informing? him that the Vireo subseciuently described by him as V. cobanenais was dill'er- ent from V. philadelphica. The skin forwarded for examination by him appeared to differ in some noticeable points, but those subse- quently received from Mr. Salvin and other sources agree exactly with speci
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