96 VIEEO OLIVACEUS, RED-EYED VIREO. 



leys with ringing music. At first it sings only on bright, clear morn- 

 ings ; but once fairly in the mood, it sings at all hours and during the 

 most inclement weather. Often while traveling over the narrow, wind- 

 ing mountain roads, toward the close of wiuter, I have been overtaken 

 and half-blinded by sudden, furious storms of wind and snow, and com- 

 pelled to seek the nearest tree or projecting rock for shelter. In such 

 situations I have frequently listened to the song of this bird, and forgot 

 the cold and wet in its enjoyment. Toward spring, as soon as the other 

 birds begin to sing, it becomes silent as though disdainful of joining the 

 common chorus, and commences building its nest in May, earlier than 

 almost any other bird. During this season it deserts the valleys, and 

 confines itself to partially wooded hill-tops." . 



I never found the nest of this bird myself, nor have I ever seen it. 

 The only one thus far known was discovered by Mr. Ridgway, in the 

 rift of a rode. He describes it to me as being large and bulky, built of 

 sticks and grasses. Unfortunately it was empty, and the eggs continue 

 entirely unknown. For those described, with the nest, by l3r. Brewer, 

 as above quoted, are not of this species, but of Phwnopepla nitens, as 

 I ascertained by examining them myself. They are correctly labelled 

 in Lieutenant Bendire's collection. Dr. Brewer's mistake is apparently 

 the result of a slip of the pen. 



Family YIREONID JE : Greenlets. 



VIEEO OLIVACEUS, (Linn.) Vieill. 



Red-eyed Vireo. 



MiiscicajHi oUvacca, Linn., S. N. i, 1766, 327.— Wils., Am..Orn. ii, 1810, 55, pi. 12, f. 3. 



iflHif/s olivuceus, LiCHT., Verz. 1823, 49. 



Fireo olivaccits, Vieill.— Bp., Obs. Wils. 1826, 124 ; Syn. 1828, 71.— Sw. &. Rich., F. B. 

 A. ii, 1831, 233.— AuD., Orn. Biofr. ii, 1834, 287, pi. 150; Syn. 1839, 162.— Nutt., 

 Mau. i, 1832, 312.— Aud., B. Am. iv, 155, pi. 243.— GiR., B. L. I. 1844, 157.— 

 WooDH., Sitgr. Rep. 1853, 76.— Bd., B. N. A. 1858, 331.— Allen, Bull. M. C. Z. 

 1872, 176 (mountains of Colorado, up to 11,000 feet; Ogden, Utah). — CouES, 

 Key, 1872, 120, fig. 59 ; and of most late United States writers. 



FireosylriaoUvacca, Bp., List, 18.38, 26; Consp. i, 1850, 329. — Eeinh., Viddensk. Med. ' 

 for 1853 (1854), 82 (Greenland).— Eeinh., Ibis, iii, 1861, 7 (Greenland).— ScL., 

 P. Z. S. 18.55, 151 (Bogota); 1859, 137, 363 (Xalapa) ; 1870, 836 (Honduras); 

 Cat. A. B. 1862, 43.— A. & E. Newton, Ibis, 1859, 145 (Santa Cruz).— Sol. & 

 Salv., Ibis, 1859, 12 (Guatemala).— Lawr., Ann. Lye. vii, 1860, 246 (Cuba) ; Ix, 

 1868, 96 (Costa Eica).— Mosley, Nat. Hist. Tutbury, 1863, 385, pi. 6 ; Ibis, 1864, 

 394; Zoologist, 1864, 8965; fide Harting, Man. Br. B. 1872, 99 (accidental iu 

 England).— Bd., Eev. 1866, 333.— Allen, Bull. M. C. Z. ii, 1871, 270 (a few 

 wintering iu Florida). — B. B. & E., N. A. B. i, 1874, 363;* and of many late 

 United States writers. 



Plujllomcnies oUvamis, Cab., Mus. Hein, i, 1850, 63.— Cab., J. f. O. 1860, 404 (Costa 

 Eica).— GUNDL., J. f, O. 1861, 324 (Cuba). 



(?) Virco virescens, Vieill., Ois. Am. Sept. i, 1807, 84, pi. 53.— Gray, G. of B. i, 1844, pi. 75. 



Vireo bogotcttsis, Bry., Pr. B. S. vii, 1860, 227 (Bogota). — Lawr., A. L., 1863 (Pauama). 



Hah. — Eastern North America to Hudson's Bay. Greenland. West beyond the lim- 

 its of the Eastern Province to Ogden, Utah. Fort Bridger. Bitterroot Valley. Koot- 

 enay, Washington Territory (Eciinerh/). Missouri Eiver, 800 miles above its mouth 

 (PearsaU). Some winter iu Florida. Greenland. Cuba. Trinidad, Finsch, P. Z. S. 1870, 

 565 (with agilifi). Panama. In Mexico nearly replaced by the closely allied species V. 

 flaroviridli. Extremely abundant throughout the Eastern United States. Accidental 



* A History of North American Birds. By S. F. Baird, T. M. Brewer, and E. Eidg- 

 WAY. Illustrated by 64 colored plates and 593 woodcuts. Vols. I, II : Laud Birds — 

 Boston : Little, Brown & Co., 1874. The reception of the earlier volumes of this great 

 work (Feb., 1874), as the present i)ublicatiou reaches this point in printing, will enable 

 me to cite it in succeeding pages. 



