Plate XXVIII. Male and Female.
Upper parts light olive-green, head greyish-blue; lower white, the
sides greenish-yellow; eyelids and a band of white from the bill over
the eye; a dusky spot before the eye; quills and coverts
brownish-black; two bands of white on the wing, formed by the tips of
the secondary coverts and first row of small coverts; primaries
narrowly edged with yellowish-green, secondaries broadly with white;
tail-feathers brownish-black, the outer edged with white; head and
sides of neck inclining to greyish-blue.
_Male_, 5-1/2, 8-1/2.
From Texas to Nova Scotia, rather abundant. Rare in the interior.
Columbia River. Migratory.
Solitary Flycatcher, Muscicapa solitaria, Wils. Amer. Orn. v.
ii. p. 143.
Vireo solitarius, Bonap. Syn. p. 79.
Solitary Vireo or Flycatcher, Vireo solitarius, Nutt. Man. v.
ii. p. 305.
Solitary Flycatcher or Vireo, Vireo solitarius, Aud. Orn.
Biog. v. i. p. 147; v. v. p. 432.