WHITE-EYED VIREO 235 



Carolina Wren, Warbling Vireo, Summer Tanager, Wood Thrush and 

 others, and although its imitations are not as accurate as those of the 

 Mockingbird, or even as those of the Starling, they are easily recog- 

 nizable." The notes of the catbird and the chat are so well imitated 

 that, as all these birds live in similar thickets, it is easy for the listener 

 to be deceived. Bradford Torrey (1904) recognized the notes of 

 the crested flycatcher mingled "with its song. 



Field marks. — The white-eyed vireo is a small, very active vireo, 

 bright olive-green above and tinged with yellow on the sides of its 

 white underparts ; tlie space in front of and around the eye is yellow, 

 these being white in the larger blue-headed vireo; but the best field 

 mark is the very conspicuous white iris ; and its song is unmistakable. 



DISTRIBUTION 



Range. — Eastern United States and southeastern Canada to Guate- 

 mala and Honduras. 



Breeding range — The North American races of the white-eyed vireo 

 breed north to southeastern Nebraska (Vesta and Falls City; possibly 

 Homer) ; southern Iovv\a (Council Bluffs, Grinnell, and Coralville) ; 

 southern Wisconsin, rarely (Lake Koshkonong; occurrences have been 

 reported from Madison, New London, and Milwaukee) ; southern 

 Michigan, probably (Kalamazoo, Ann Arbor, and Detroit) ; south- 

 western Ontario (London, Woodstock, and Toronto) ; central New 

 York (Rockport, Ballston Spa, and Troy) ; southern Vermont (Ben- 

 nington, possibly farther north) ; southern New Hampshire ( Jaffrey, 

 Manchester, and Boscawen) ; southeastern Maine, probably (recorded 

 from South Harpswell) ; arid Gaspe County, Quebec (one record; 

 L'Anse Pleureuse). East to Gaspe County, Quebec (L'Anse Pleu- 

 reuse) ; New Brunswick (Fredericton and St. John, probably) ; south- 

 eastern Maine (South Harpswell) ; Massachusetts (Boston and Woods 

 Hole) ; and the Atlantic Coast States, south to southern Florida 

 (Miami, Key Largo, and Key West). South to southern Florida 

 (Key West) ; the Gulf coast to southern Texas ( Brownsville) ; and 

 northeastern Mexico (Matamoros and Gomez Farias, Tamaulipas ; and 

 Matlapa, San Luis Potosi). V/est to San Luis Potosi (Matlapa) ; 

 southeastern Coahuila (Saltillo) ; western Nuevo Leon (Monterrey) ; 

 central Texas (Rio Grande City, Kerrville, Mason, and Henrietta) ; 

 central to northeastern Oklahoma (Fort Eeno and Copan) ; eastern 

 Kansas (Neosho Falls, Lawrence, and Manhattan; a casual record 

 in Ellis County) ; and eastern Nebraska (Vesta and Homer, and has 

 occurred west to Kearney). 



Winter range. — The white-eyed vireo is found in winter north to 

 southern Texas (San Antonio and Cove) ; southern Louisiana (Avery 

 Island, Thibadeau, and Baton Rouge) ; southern Mississippi (Ed- 



