. Birds of the Colorado Valley : a repository of scientific and popular information concerning North American ornithology . with a contracted brim, the opening being only half as muchas the outside diameter. The eggs, as described by the sameeminent oologist, are from to in length by to breadth, pure white in color, sparsely dotted with red aroundthe larger end. TUe liCast GreeBiIet Tireo pasillus Vireo bellll, ? Coop. Pr. Cal. Acad. 1861,122 (Fort Mojave, Ariz.). Vlreo pusUlUS, Coues, Pr. Phila. Acad, 1866, 76 (descr. orig.; near Fort Whipple, Ariz.).— Bd. Eev. AB. 1S66,
. Birds of the Colorado Valley : a repository of scientific and popular information concerning North American ornithology . with a contracted brim, the opening being only half as muchas the outside diameter. The eggs, as described by the sameeminent oologist, are from to in length by to breadth, pure white in color, sparsely dotted with red aroundthe larger end. TUe liCast GreeBiIet Tireo pasillus Vireo bellll, ? Coop. Pr. Cal. Acad. 1861,122 (Fort Mojave, Ariz.). Vlreo pusUlUS, Coues, Pr. Phila. Acad, 1866, 76 (descr. orig.; near Fort Whipple, Ariz.).— Bd. Eev. AB. 1S66, 360, ^g.—Coues, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1868, 83 (Arizona).—Oooi). Am. Nat. iii. 1869, 186, 479.—Coo/). B. Cal. i. 1870, Hi.—Elliot, Ulust. BNA. pi. 7 .—(7oMes, Key, 1872,123, f. 11.—Coop. Am. Nat. ,17.—B. B. <& R. NAB. i. 1874,391, pL 17, f. \\.—IIensh. List B. Ariz, 1875,157.— Expl. W. 100Merid. 1875, 226.—Eidgw. Eep. Expl. 40 iii. 1877,451(Sacramento, Cal.).—Stevens, Bull. , iii. n. 2, apr. 1878,93 (Gila River).Least Vireo, Cones, 1. c, and Fig. 6i.—Vireo pusillus, natural size. Hab.—Arizona, chiefly in its lower portions, and California from Sacra-mento to Cape St. Lucas. (Doubtless also portions of Mexico.) Ch. SP.— (J 9 Eemigibits X, 1™° 2^^ (Umidiato ; minimus; allscauddque cvqualibus; cinereo-plumbens, vix oHvaceiis, infrh aUnis,lateribus vix flavicantibus. ,? $: A very small species, quite like a miniature of V. vicinior in the dullcoloration and relative lengths of wings and tail; more nearly related toF. belli, but differing in coloration, wing-formula, and relative lengths of■wing and tail. Above grayiah-ash with slight olive shade ; below, includingunder wing-coverts, white, slightly obscured on the breast, with faint yel-lowish wash on the sides. A whitish line from nostrils over and around eye;lores slightly darkened ; two wing-bands—one stronger than the other—andnarrow edging
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