136 BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND AND EASTERN NEW YORK 



June, 1903, in a group of birches almost under the eastern 

 windows of The Balsams, at Dixville Notch. 



The song is at times identical with that of the Red-eye, 

 though generally a little more languid. One phrase sug- 

 gests, in form, but not at all in power and sweetness, the 

 double note of the Solitary Yireo. The scolding-note is a 

 harsh tivee-twee-tiuee, which closely resembles that of the 

 Warbling Vireo. 



A good look at the bird should leave no doubt of its 

 identity ; the side of the head resembles the Warbling 

 Vireo instead of the Red-eye, but the entire under parts, 

 particularly the breast, are distinctly tinged ivith yelloic. 

 (See Brewster, '' Auk," 1903, p. 369, and Dwight, " Auk/' 

 1897, p. 259.) 



Red-eyed Vireo. Vireo olivaceus 



6.23 



Ad. — Upper parts brownish, with a greenish tinge in strong 

 light; crown gray, bordered on each side hy a blackish line; line 

 over the eye white; dusky stripe through eye; under parts white, 

 with no tinge of yellow. 



Nest, a cup hung from a fork, from five to twenty-five feet up. 

 Eggs, white, spotted with brown, chiefly at the larger end. 



The Red-eyed Vireo is a very common summer resident 

 throughout New York and New England, arriving in May, 



and sometimes staying into October. 

 It lives in deciduous trees, and may 

 be found wherever they occur, — in 

 the woods, orchards, plantations, vil- 

 lage or city streets. It is a constant 

 singer, so constant, in fact, that its 

 Fio. 28. Red-eyed Vireo ^^^^ -g ^.^^.y generally overlooked. 



It is only when one's ears are opened that we realize how 

 large a proportion of the daily chorus of bird-song is fur- 

 nished by the Red-eye. The bird itself spends so much of 



