262 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Tolerably common transient visitant, no doubt breeding at High 

 Knob, Sussex county, where Mr. Chapman found it in June, 1890. 1 

 Spring, April 20th to May 5th; autumn, September 20th to October 

 15th. 



A tree Vireo of much the same habits and appearance as the Red- 

 eye, but with some harsher notes in its warble. It is our earliest 

 Vireo in springtime, and can always be identified by the blue-gray 

 head and white eye ring. 



631 Vireo griseus (Boddaert). 

 White-eyed Vireo. 



PLATE 70. 



Adults. Length, 4.50-5. Wing, 2.40. Above, dull olive-green, grayish on 

 the neck ; wings and tail, dusky, edged with olive or yellowish-white ; two yel- 

 lowish-white wing bars ; under parts, white ; sides of neck, grayish ; sides of 

 body and crissum, sulphur yellow ; a tinge of the same color on the breast ; 

 lores and eye ring, pale yellow, interrupted by a dusky spot in front. 



Young in first summer. Dull brownish-olive above ; below, white, tinged 

 with buff on the breast and sulphur yellow on the flanks and crissum. 



Nest pensile, swung from the fork of a low bush, and usually with much 

 grass in its construction ; eggs, three to four, white, with very small black 

 spots on the larger end, .75 x .55. 



Common summer resident. Arrives April 27th (May 3d), departs 

 October 1st. 



This is a characteristic bird of low swampy woods throughout the 

 State, especially along the streams of south Jersey, in and out of the 

 pine barrens. The habits of the White-eye are similar to those of 

 other Vireos, with the exception that he confines himself to low bushes 

 and never gets up into the trees. 



His call is a loud warble resembling the syllables "wit-see-a-willie." 



1 Abst. Proc. Linn. Soc., N. Y., 1890-91, p. 4. 



