1 86 SINGING BIRDS. 



PHILADELPHIA VIREO. 



ViREO PHILADELPHICUS. 



Char. Above, grayish olive, brighter on rump, shading to ashy on 

 crown; white line over eyes; beneath, greenish yellow, paler on throat 

 and belly. Length about 4^ inches. 



Nest. In a grove ; suspended from forked twigs of low brancli ; com- 

 posed of grass and birch bark. 



Eggs, 4 — .?; white, spotted with brown ; .' 



This species was first described by Mr. Cassin, in 1851, from a 

 specimen shot by him near Philadelphia in 1842. Of the bird's 

 habits we have learned but little. The only nest yet discovered 

 was found by Mr. Ernest E. Thompson in Manitoba in 1884. 



Of the bird's range we have still much to learn. It is a migrant 

 only in southern New England, but is known to spend the summer 

 in Maine, and has been taken at that season in New Hampshire. 

 In 1882 our party secured several at Edmundston, in New Bruns- 

 wick, near the Quebec border. Dr. Wheaton considered it a regu- 

 lar spring and fall migrant through Ohio, but very few have been 

 observed in Ontario. 



The song of this species is so much like that of the Red-eye, 

 that they are not easily distinguished. 



Note. — Mr. Comeau has taken at Godbout, on the north shore 

 of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, one example of the Yellow-green 

 ViREO {V.yiavoviridis), a bird of Mexico and Central America. 



