WHITE-EYED VIREO. 



fading into the white; the iris white in spring and early 

 summer only. Female similarly colored. Nest like that 

 of the Red-eyed Vireo. Egg white with a few markings 

 of umber, red-brown, or sepia at the larger end. The 

 range of this bird is from Florida to New Hampshire 

 and Minnesota; it winters from Florida to Honduras. 



The favorite retreat of the White-eyed Vireo is the 

 thicket of the swamp. There, his querulous notes will 

 be heard with a certain impatient inflection of the voice 

 which unmistakably denotes dissatisfaction at least, 

 that is the impression one gets upon hearing him for the 

 first time. If one stops to investigate the little fellow 

 with the opera-glass, and he discovers the intruder, 

 there is pretty sure to be expostulations on his part of a 

 significant if not a saucy nature. He seems to whistle 

 at one angrily Who are you there? . . Go ''way . . . 

 Get out! His range of voice is much wider than that of 

 the Red-eye, his whistle is almost as clear, but his notes 

 are slurred not delivered staccato. To my mind his 

 voice more nearly resembles that of the Solitary Vireo. 

 Mr. Torrey considers the bird a singer of astonishing 

 spirit and a skilful ventriloquist. The following is my 

 only notation: 



Sforzdndo. 



It does not differ in appearance from that of other Vireos, 

 but the inflections of the bird's voice, are, nevertheless 

 distinctly his own. 



Family Mniotiltidce. WOOD WARBLERS. 



This remarkable and large family of so-called soft- 

 billed birds is distinctively American. According to 

 Mr. Chapman there are one hundred species known, of 

 which some seventy visit the United States, the rest re- 

 maining in the tropical regions. Of the seventy species, 

 about thirty may be considered more or less common, 

 generally or locally, and of this number certainly not 

 more than a score are likely to become familiar to the 



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