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VIREO SOLITARIUS— VIEILL 



SOLITARY GREENLET. 



Solitary Flycatcher, Muscicapa solitaria, Wils. Amer. Oin. 

 Vireo solitarius, Bonap. Syn. 



Solitary Vireo, or Flycatcher, Vifeo solitarius, Nutt. Man. 

 Solitary Flycatcher, or Vireo, Vireo solitarius, Aud. Orn. Biog. 



Specific Character — A band from the nostril to the eye, and a 

 troad ring round the eye white. Adult with a broad band of white 

 at the base of the upper mandible, passing back to the eye, which 

 is surrounded by the same color ; a dusky spot before the eye ; 

 head bluish ; back, rump, and upper tail coverts olivaceous ; wings 

 and tail brownish-black, the outer webs of the feathers margined 

 with olivaceous, the inner secondaries rather broadly margined 

 with dull white, of which color are the tips of the secondary coverts 

 and first row of small coverts ; the outer web of the lateral tail 

 feathers, the inner webs of all edged with the same; throat, fore 

 neck, and middle portion of the breast and abdomen white; sides 

 of the body greenish-yellow. Length five inches and a half, wing 

 two and seven-eighths. 



On Long Island, as elsewhere in the vicinity of New York, this 

 species is not common. The few that I have met with have been 

 found in similar situations with those inhabited by the Yellow- 

 throated Vireo, to which its manners and customs appear not un- 

 like. It was first noticed by Wilson, he having met with but three 

 specimens. According to Mr. Audubon^ it inhabits, during the 

 spring and summer months, the cane-brakes in Louisiana, and the 

 alluvial lands near the Mississippi. He also found it abundant in 

 Maine. Mr. Nuttall mentions having met with it in the early part 

 of the month of May on the banks of the Columbia River. 



