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the Red-Eyed Vireo, and chiefly disposed towards the 

 larger end. 



The food of this species, during the summer, is insects, 

 but towards autumn they and their young feed also on 

 various small berries. About the middle of September, 

 the whole move off and leave the United States, probably 

 to winter in tropical America. 



The Yellow-Throated Vireo is 5^ inches long, and 9 in alar extent. 

 Above yellowish-olive ; throat, breast, and line over the eye lemon- 

 yellow } vent and belly white ; lesser wing-coverts, lower part of 

 the back, and rump, ash. Wings deep brown, almost black, with 2 

 white bars ; primaries edged with pale ash, secondaries with white ; 

 tail a little forked, of the color of the wings ; the 3 exterior feathers 

 edged on each vane with white. Legs, feet, and bill, greyish-blue, 

 Iris hazel. The female and young have the yellow on the breast, 

 around the eye, and the white on the wings, duller. 



SOLITARY VIREO, or FLYCATCHER. 



(Vireo solitarius, Vieill. Bonap. Audubon, pi. 28, Orn. Biog. i. 

 p. 147. Muscicapa solitaria, Wilsox, ii. p. 143. pi. 17. fig Q.) 



Sp. Charact. — Dusky olive; head bluish-grey ; line from the up- 

 per mandible round the eye whitish ; the breast pale cinereous ; 

 the belly white, yellow on each side ; wings with 2 white bands, 

 and with the tail dusky brown. 



This is one of the rarest species of the genus, and from 

 Georgia to Pennsylvania seems only as a straggler or ac- 

 cidental visitor. One was obtained by Wilson in Mr. 

 Bartram's woods in the month of October. According 

 to Audubon, it inhabits and breeds occasionally in the 

 cane-brakes, and vast alluvial lands of Louisiana near 

 the banks of the Mississippi. The nest, as usual, is 

 partly pensile from the forked twigs of a low bush. It is 

 slightly put together, coated externally with grey lichens, 

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