12 JUNE IN FRANCONIA. 
red-eye’s, while others have the peculiar 
sweet upward inflection of the solitary’s. 
To hear some of the measures, you would 
pass the bird for a red-eye; to hear others 
of them, you might pass him for a solitary. 
At the same time, he has not the most highly 
characteristic of the solitary’s phrases. His 
voice is less sharp and his accent less em- 
phatic than the red-eye’s, and, so far as we 
heard, he observes decidedly longer rests 
between the measures.”’ 
This is under date of June 16th. On the 
following day I made another entry : — 
“The song is, I think, less varied than 
either the solitary’s or the red-eye’s, but it 
grows more distinct from both as it is longer 
heard. Acquaintance will probably make 
it as characteristic and unmistakable as any 
of our four other vireo songs. But I do not 
withdraw what I said yesterday about its 
resemblance to the red-eye’s and the soli- 
tary’s. The bird seems quite fearless, and 
keeps much of the time in the lower branches. 
In this latter respect his habit is in contrast 
with that of the warbling vireo.” 
On the whole, then, the song of the Phil- 
adelphia vireo comes nearest to the red-eye’s, 
