Nape and side of neck olive-green; upper tail-coverts plumbeous. Crissum not tinged with yellow, but sides of the throat and across the breast are. Wing, 3.10; tail. 2.20; bill, .29; tarsus, .64. Hab. Coban, Vera Cruz, Guatemala; resident? … var. propinquus.[77]
2. L. flavifrons. Spurious primary concealed. Throat and orbital ring yellow.
Anterior half of body olive-green above, lemon-yellow below; posterior half plumbeous-ash above, white below. Wing, 3.00; tail, 1.90; bill, .32; tarsus, .70. Hab. Eastern Province of United States, south, in winter, to Costa Rica, and very rare in Cuba.
Lanivireo solitarius, Baird.
BLUE-HEADED VIREO.
Muscicapa solitaria, Wils. Am. Orn. II, 1810, 143, pl. xvii, fig. 6. Vireo solitarius, Vieill.—Aud. I.—Cassin, Sc.—Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, 298 (Cordova); 1859, 363 (Xalapa); 375 (Oaxaca?).—Sclater & Salvin, Ibis, 1860, 31 (Guatemala).—Cab. Jour. III, 468 (Cuba).—Gundlach, Cab. Jour. 1861, 324 (Cuba; very rare).—Samuels, Birds N. Eng. 277. Vireo (Lanivireo) sol. Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 329. Vireosylvia (Lanivireo) solitaria, Baird, Rev. Am. B. 1864, 347.
Lanivireo solitarius.
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Sp. Char. (No. 300 ♂.) Above olive-green, including upper tail-coverts; the top and sides of head and nape ashy-plumbeous; sides of the neck plumbeous-olive. Broad line from nostrils to and around eye, involving the whole lower eyelid, white. A loral line
involving the edge of the eyelid, and a space beneath the eye, dusky plumbeous. Beneath white; the sides yellow, overlaid with olive, this color not extending anterior to the breast. Axillars and base of crissum pale sulphur-yellow, the long feathers of the latter much paler or nearly white. Wings with two bands and outer edges of innermost secondaries olivaceous-white; the quills dark brown, edged externally with olive-green, internally with white; tail-feathers similarly marked, except that the lateral feather is edged externally also with white, the central without internal border. Bill and legs blackish-plumbeous. Iris brown.