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intermediate between the Loggerhead and White-runiped varieties, 

 but on the whole they approach nearest to the former, and have 

 been assigned to it whenever specimens have been sent to authori- 

 ties for identification. The A. O. U. Check-List also gives New 

 England as part of its habitat. 



County Records.— Audroscoggiu, "rare summer resident" (Johnson) ; 

 Cumberland, "of regular occurrence, it has come to my notice only dur- 

 ing April and August, in Westbrook, Gorham, etc." (Norton) ; Franklin, 

 "rare summer resident" (Richards) ; Hancock, '-summer resident" 

 (Murch) ; Kennebec, "rare" (Gardiner Branch) ; Oxford, "rare summer 

 resident" (Johnson) ; Penol)seot, "common summer resident" (Knight) ; 

 Piscataquis, "common sunmier resident" (Whitman) ; Somerset, "quite 

 common summer resident"* (Morrell) ; Washington, "rare summer resi- 

 dent" (Boardman) ; York, "rare migrant" (Adams). 



Family VIREONID^. Vireos. 



Genus VIREO Vieillot. 



Subgenus VIREOS YLV A Bonaparte. 



263. (624). Vireo olivacens (7>«Mi.). Red-eyed Vireo. 



The commonest species of its family with us, and of very gen- 

 eral distribution as a summer resident wdthin our limits. It is a 

 bird of both woodland and shady city streets, its presence during 

 the breeding season being evidenced by its ever constant song. 



County Records. — Androscoggin, "common summer resident" (John- 

 son) ; Aroostook, "common at Fort Fairfield" (Batchelder, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, Vol. 7, p. Ill) ; Cumberland, "common summer resident" 

 (Mead) ; Franklin, "common summer resident" (Swain) ; Hancock, 

 "summer resident" (Murch) ; Kennebec, "common summer resident" 

 (Gardiner Branch) ; Knox, "summer" (Rackliff ) ; Oxford, "breeds 

 commonly" (Nash) ; Penobscot, "common breeder" (Knight) ; Piscata- 

 quis, "common, breeds" (Homer) ; Sagadahoc, "common summer resi- 

 dent" (Spinney) ; Somerset, "common summer resident" (JNIorrell) ; 

 Waldo, (Spratt) ; Washington, "very abundant summer resident" 

 (Boardman) ; York, "common summer resident" (Adams). 



264. (626). Vireo philadelphicus (Cass.). Philadelphia 

 Vireo. 



A summer resident of the Canadian fauna, while elsewhere in 

 the state it is of somewhat rare occurrence as a migrant, according 

 to the data now at hand. It is very probable that this species has 

 been overlooked by many Ornithologists, owing to its resemblance 

 to the Warbliug species, while its song is almost indistinguishable 

 from that of the Red-eyed Vireo. 



