WHITE-EYED VIREO. 
fading into the white; the iris white in spring and early 
summer only. Female similarly colored. Nest like that 
of the Red-eyed Vireo. Egg white with a few markings 
of umber, red-brown, or sepia at the larger end. The 
range of this bird is from Florida to New Hampshire 
and Minnesota; it winters from Florida to Honduras. 
The favorite retreat of the White-eyed Vireo is the 
thicket of the swamp. There, his querulous notes will 
be heard with a certain impatient inflection of the voice 
which unmistakably denotes dissatisfaction—at least, 
that is the impression one gets upon hearing him for the 
first time. If one stops to investigate the little fellow 
with the opera-glass, and he discovers the intruder, 
there is pretty sure to be expostulations on his part of a 
significant if not a saucy nature. He seems to whistle 
at one angrily—Who are you there?.. Go ’way... 
Get out! His range of voice is much wider than that of 
the Red-eye, his whistle is almost as clear, but his notes 
are slurred—not delivered staccato. To my mind his 
voice more nearly resembles that of the Solitary Vireo. 
Mr. Torrey considers the bird a singer of astonishing 
spirit and a skilful ventriloquist. The following is my 
only notation: 
= 
Cae CS SR PES MER a 
| f F | 
Fa Ga SR, OG A 
Se Ta 
ih 
bad 
(Noles all slurs) 
It does not differ in appearance from that of other Vireos, 
but the inflections of the bird’s voice, are, nevertheless 
distinctly his own. 
Family Mniotiltide. Wood WARBLERS. 
This remarkable and large family of so-called soft- 
billed birds is distinctively American. According te 
Mr. Chapman there are one hundred species known, of 
which some seventy visit the United States, the rest re- 
maining in the tropical regions. Of the seventy species 
about thirty may be considered more or less common, 
generally or locally, and of this number certainly not 
more than a score are likely to become familiar to the 
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