BLUE-HEADED VIREO 303 



the mountain vireo of the southern Appahachians has extended its 

 range to lower altitudes, and in North Carolina has been found breed- 

 ing at Statesville and Charlotte, and a few times at Raleigh, and in 

 Georgia at Athens and Eound Oak. South to northern Georgia (Burnt 

 Mountain), northeastern Ohio (Ashtabula); extreme southern On- 

 tario (Point Pelee) ; southeastern Michigan (Rochester) ; southern 

 Wisconsin (Racine, North Freedom, and Prairie du Sac) ; central 

 Minnesota (North Pacific Junction, Brainerd, and Itaska State Park) ; 

 northern North Dakota (Pembina and Turtle Mountains) ; eastern 

 Wyoming (Sundance and Laramie) ; central Colorado (Boulder, Den- 

 ver, Colorado Springs, and Trinidad); central New Mexico (Santa 

 Fe, Las Vegas, and San Antonio) ; western Texas (Guadelupe Moun- 

 tains, Davis Mountains, and Brewster County) ; northern Chihuahua 

 (San Diego and Pachico) ; central Sonora (Moctezuma) , and northern 

 Lower California (Sierra San Pedro Martir). A resident race is 

 found in the Cape district of Lower California. West to northern 

 Lower California (Sierra San Pedro Martir) ; western California 

 (Campo, Pasadena, Almaden, Oakland, and Eureka) ; western Oregon 

 (Coos Bay, Corvallis, the mountains near Tillamook, and Portland) ; 

 western Washington (Vancouver, Seattle, Lake Crescent, and Belling- 

 ham) ; and western British Columbia (Victoria, Comox, and Punt- 

 chesakut Lake) . 



Winter ra?i(/e. — In winter the solitary vireo is found north to north- 

 ern Michoacan (Cerro Patamban and Zamora) ; possibly north to 

 southern Sonora (Tesia) ; Puebla (Metaltoyuca) ; Nuevo Leon (Mon- 

 terrey) ; southern Texas (Llarlingcn, Houston, Cove, and Silsbee) ; 

 southern Louisiana (Avery Island and New Orleans) ; southern Mis- 

 sissippi (Biloxi) ; southern Alabama (Prattville, occasionally) ; Geor- 

 gia (Milledgeville and casually to Atlanta and Athens) ; and southern 

 South Carolina, casually (Aiken, Summerville, and Charleston). 

 East to coastal South Carolina (Charleston and Port Royal) ; Georgia 

 (Savannah and St. Marys) ; Florida (St. Augustine, New Smyrna, 

 and Royal Palm Park) ; Quintana Roo (Chunyaxche), and El Salva- 

 dor (Mount Cacaquatique) ; and occasionally to northern Nicaragua 

 ( San Rafael del Norte) . South to El Salvador. West to El Salvador 

 (Mount Cacaquatique and Barra de Santiago) ; Guatemala (Duenas 

 and Huehuetenango) ; Oaxaca (Tehuantepec and Juquila) ; Guerrero 

 (Tlalixtaquilla and Chilpancingo) ; Michoacan (Cerro Patamban) ; 

 the Cape region of Lower California (Cape San Lucas), and possibly 

 southern Sonora (Tesia), and in small numbers in the vicinity of 

 Tucson, Ariz. ; a single record of winter occurrence at Pasadena, Calif. 

 It is a rare migrant of winter resident in western Cuba (Habana). 



The ranges as outlined apply to the species as a whole, which has 

 been separated into five subspecies or geographic races. The typical 

 race, the blue-headed vireo ( V. s. soUtarius) , breeds from southwestern 



