. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 17, f. 6; NuTT., i, 305; Aud., iv, 144, pi. 239; Br>., 340, and Rev. 347. ( V. cassinii Xantus, Proc. Phila. Acad. 1858, 117 ; Bd., 340, pi. 78, f. 1, is not different.) soutarius. Plumbeous Vireo. Leaden-gray, rather brighter and more ashy on the crown, but without marked contrast, faintly glossed with olive on rump ; a conspicuous white li
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 17, f. 6; NuTT., i, 305; Aud., iv, 144, pi. 239; Br>., 340, and Rev. 347. ( V. cassinii Xantus, Proc. Phila. Acad. 1858, 117 ; Bd., 340, pi. 78, f. 1, is not different.) soutarius. Plumbeous Vireo. Leaden-gray, rather brighter and more ashy on the crown, but without marked contrast, faintly glossed with olive on rump ; a conspicuous white line from nostril to and around eye, and below this a dusky loral stripe ; below, pure white, sides of neck aud breast shaded with color of the back, tlanks, axillars and crissum with a mere trace of olivaceous, or none; wing and tail dusky, with conspicuous pure white edgings and cross-bars. Size of the last or rather larger ; bill nearly Plumbeousviieo. J; tarsus §; middle toe the same; spurious quill about f, one-third as long as the second quill. Central Plains to the Pacific, U. S., and especially Southern Rocky Mountains, where it is abundant. A large stout species, a near ally of soUlarius, but nearly all the olivaceous of tiiat species replaced by plumbeous, and the yellowish by white, so that it is a very different looking bird. It may prove onl^' a variety, but I have seen no intermediate specimens, and cannot reconcile the obvious discrepancies, upon this supposition. Coues, Pr. Ac. Phila., 1866, 74; Bd., Rev. 349; Coor., 119; Elliot, pi. 7. . plumbeus. r/i Gray Vireo. With the general appearance of a small faded specimen of jplumbeus: leaden-gray, fiuntly olivaceous on the rump, below white, with hardly a trace of yellowish on the sides ; wings and tail hardly edged with white ; no markings about head except a whitish eye-ring. 5|; extent 85 ; wing and tail, each, 2J ; tarsus nearly % ; middle toe and claw hardly over J ; tip of inner claw failing short of ba
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