. Review of American birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Instution. [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. VIEEOBYLVIA. 88T and claw, with neron well-markHil Houtullie anteriorly. Outer lateral toe the limgur, reaching beyond baae of middle; clawa much curved, ooiupreased, 40099. Vira>»ylvUi olivnaea.^ acute. In the dried specimen entire basal joint of middle toe adherent to one and tliree-fourtha 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.' P4h 'K:-'<i,. » â â 1; ViREOSYLViA, Bon. The following
. Review of American birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Instution. [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. VIEEOBYLVIA. 88T and claw, with neron well-markHil Houtullie anteriorly. Outer lateral toe the limgur, reaching beyond baae of middle; clawa much curved, ooiupreased, 40099. Vira>»ylvUi olivnaea.^ acute. In the dried specimen entire basal joint of middle toe adherent to one and tliree-fourtha 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.' P4h 'K:-'<i,. » â â 1; ViREOSYLViA, Bon. The following synopi^is expresses the characters of the species of Vireosylvia as restricted :â Common Charactrrh.âAll 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 crissum yellowish, otherwise usually white beneath. A. Bill lengthened; gape or commissure less than twice the distance from nostril to end of bill. No spurous primary. Cap ashy, in contrast with olive green of back, edged with dusky, forming a faint supraocular dark stripe. A dusky stripe on each side of the chin. Superciliary stripe and cheeks, especially anterior to eye, and the chin tinged with brown- ish-buff. Ash of head indistinctly defined, owing to a wash of olivstceous. Olive of ' In the following figures the left foot is always given, and from the outer side. ' 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
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