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Remsen,
J.V.
1977
White-eyed Vireo
Vireo griseus
Point Reyes [cont]
June 7
[cont]
there was a narrow, pale eyering which touched the yellow-
green forehead - I wouldn't have called it spectacles - it was
just that the yellow-green forehead was so extensive that it
reached the lores; the chin was grayish-white [underparts]:
the throat was grayish-white, contrasting sharply with the very
yellow sides of the breast; this yellow extended along the sides
to the flanks and nearly met in the breast and belly but it
looked like there was white extending all the way down the
center of the breast and belly to the undertail coverts. But the
yellow may have actually gone all the way across the upper-
contrast so sharply
den.
breast because the throat seemed to be so sharply demc.
with the breast. The undertail coverts looked white at our last
observation but at one earlier glimpse I thought they were yellow.
[upperparts]: I never clearly saw the back in good light - to
the it looked olive-brown but everyone else said it was green.
[Wings]: brown with 2 conspicuous white wingbars. [Tail]:
dull without any notable markings; short.