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V. olitaceus has never yet been found in those islands. Accord- 

 ing to Dr. Browne, who furnished Edwards with a specimen, from 

 Jamaica, which he has published, '' it has not many notes, but they 

 are loud and sweet." 



The size and general plumage is similar, according to Swainson, 

 with that of a new species which he terms Vireo virescens as well as 

 V. olivaceus, excepting that the colors are somewhat duller than 

 those of the last : but it is essentially distinguished by a narrow line 

 of dusky -black, which margins each side of the chin : — Total length 

 5^ inches ; the bill from, the front six tenths of an inch ; the wings 

 2 inches and seven tenths : the tarsus seven tenths of an inch. — 



Obs. We hav€ given this species a place in a note thus to complete 

 the history of our own familiar Vireo ^ and with a suspicion that it 

 occasionally also strays into the forests of the Southern States, 



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( Bomdy cilia garrufa, Bonap. Am. Orn. pi. 16. fig. 2. Richard, and 

 Swains. North. Zool. ii. p. 237.) 



Dr. Richardson informs us, that this bird appears in 

 flocks at Great Bear Lake, about the 24th of May, when they 

 feed on the berries of the alpine arbutus, marsh vaccini- 

 um, and other kinds exposed again to the surface after 

 the spring thaw. Another flock of 3 or 400 individuals 

 was seen on the banks of the Saskatchewan, at Carlton 

 House, early in the same month. In their usual manner, 

 they all settled together on one or two trees, and remained 

 together about the same place for an hour in the morning, 

 making a loud twittering noise, and were too shy to be ap- 

 proached within gunshot. Their stay at most did not exceed 

 a few days, and none of the Indians knew of their nests ; 

 though the Doctor had reason to believe that they retired 

 in the breeding season to the broken and desolate moun- 

 tain-limestone districts in the 67th or 68th parallels, where 



