AVERY BIRD COLLECTION 105 
160. LANIVIREO SOLITARIUS ALTICOLA (Brewster). 
MOUNTAIN VIREO. 
“One example was secured during the migration this 
fall, the first and only one observed by me.” (1891b). 
No. 783. Female. Greensboro. Oct. 23,'1890. W. C. Avery. 
161. VIREO GRISEUS GRISEUS (Boddaert). 
WHITE-EYED VIREO. 
The first record of this species was No. 12 of Dr. Av- 
ery’s old series, an adult male taken at Greensboro, June 
8, 1876. The stomach contained “debris of insects and 
matter which resembled vegetable matter.”’ Four days 
later he recorded another male, and wrote: “I have not 
vet learned to distinguish this bird from the preceding 
(Vireosylva olivacea) by his notes. He rarely leaves 
the lofty tops of the forest trees. He is small but he 
does not ‘roost low’.” 
This note is a palpable error and is included merely to 
show that the Doctor was just beginning the study of 
birds in 1876. 
The following is found under date of June 17, 1876: 
“This is a noisy little bird, and although smaller than 
the red-eye, his song is much louder. It is very difficult 
to find the red-eye on account of the feebleness of its 
note. Concealed among the dense foliage it sings unseen 
for houis. I yesterday heard for the first time, to know 
it, the song of Vireo noveboracensis, white-eyed vireo.” 
The following description of No. 31 (old series) taken 
next day oe that the Doctor had been studying 
his ‘‘Coues” 
“Upper Als anuNs blackish ; tip of lower mandible white, 
bordered posteriorly by a dark, sagittiform portion 
pointing anteriorly in gonys, and extending outwards and 
backwards to mandibular tomium, sides of under man- 
dible extending back from gonys proper leaden blue.” 
“Abundant. Summer resident. Breeds.” (1891b). 
No. 195. Maie. Greensboro. Sept. 7, 1889. W.C. Avery. 
No. 551. Male. Greensboro. July 22, 1890. W. C. Avery. 
No. 607. Female. Greensboro. Aug. 24, 1890. W. C. Avery. 
No. 608. Male. Greensboro. Aug. 24, 1890. W. C. Avery. 
No. 633. Female. Greensboro. Sept. 2, 1890. W. C. Avery. 
