12 JUNE IN FRAN CON I A. 



red-eye's, while others have the peculiar 

 sweet upward inflection of the solitary's. 

 To hear some of the measures, you would 

 pass the bird for a red-eye; to hear others 

 of them, you might pass him for a solitary. 

 At the same time, he has not the most highly 

 characteristic of the solitary's phrases. His 

 voice is less sharp and his accent less em- 

 phatic than the red-eye's, and, so far as we 

 heard, he observes decidedly longer rests 

 between the measures." 



This is under date of June IGth. On the 

 following day I made another entry : 



"The song is, I think, less varied than 

 either the solitary's or the red-eye's, but it 

 grows more distinct from both as it is longer 

 heard. Acquaintance will probably make 

 it as characteristic and unmistakable as any 

 of our four other vireo songs. But I do not 

 withdraw what I said yesterday about its 

 resemblance to the red-eye's and the soli- 

 tary's. The bird seems quite fearless, and 

 keeps much of the time in the lower branches. 

 In this latter respect his habit is in contrast 

 with that of the warbling vireo." 



On the whole, then, the song of the Phil- 

 adelphia vireo comes nearest to the red-eye's, 



