304 THE WHITE-EYED VIREO. 
north to southern New England and Minnesota; south in winter from Florida to 
Guatemala and Honduras. Breeds from Florida and the Gulf States northward. 
Range in Ohio.—Common in southern, rare in central Ohio. Reported regu- 
larly from northeastern part of state (Cuyahoga and Ashtabula Counties). 
THE manners of this “well-connected” bird have evidently suffered 
through close association with that “prince of mountebanks,” the Yellow- 
breasted Chat. Like the larger mime the Vireo frequents brushy ravines and 
thickets at the edge of the woods, where he prowls and pries and practices 
all the tricks of the lightning change artist, and is ready at any time to join 
his voice in a volley of abuse levelled at the chance intruder. If you are not 
apprised of his presence by a sharp click heard in the depths of the thicket, 
the feathered farceur will mount a nodding wand and throw the succession 
of vocal somersaults which he calls his song. Tup to wee-o, chipiti burtuck, 
comes with surprising energy and distinctness from so small a throat and you 
are ready to follow at once upon the chase to which the wary bird inyites you. 
Mimicry is the White-eye’s specialty. He follows it not only from a 
desire to be tuneful but from sheer love of mischief. Once, in Lawrence 
County, we 
heard a_ re- 
markable suc- 
cession of 
sounds com- 
ing we knew 
not whence. 
The ravine 
was full of 
birds and we 
surmised 
Chat and 
Catbird and 
Mockingbird, 
until we came 
at last upon 
the center of 
attraction. A 
Se Seam vv hite-eyed 
Taken in Morgan County. Photo by the hor: Vireo was 
“THE WHITE-EYED VIREO BUILDS LOW.” hopping to 
and fro upon a willow branch and singing vociferously while birds of half 
a dozen other species were ranged about him giving rapt attention,—among 
them a jealous Catbird, who listened with bill agape and drooping wings. 
