SOIilTAEl VIREO. 303 



iorly shaded with olive, posteriorly with plumbeous ; extreme forehead, superciliary 

 line, and ring around eye, yellow ; lores dusky ; wings dusky, with the inner second- 

 aries broadly white-edged, and two broad white bars across tips of greater and median 

 coverts ; tail dusky, nearly all the feathers completely encircled with white edging ; bill 

 and feet dark leaden-blue; no spurious quill. Length, 5|-6 ; wing, about 3; tail, only 

 about 2i. 



Habitat, Eastern United States and British, Provinces ; west to Iowa and Kansas ; 

 south to Mexico, Central America, and British Columbia. Cuba. 



Common summer resident, especially in Northern Ohio. Breeds. Mr. 

 Langdon gives it as largely migrant in the vicinity of Cincinnati, where 

 but a few remain and breed. In the immediate vicinity ot Columbus, it 

 is a not common spring and fall migrant in the last week of April, May, 

 and September, but I have found them nesting in oak woods, tea or 

 twelve miles distant. Mr. Read states that it is abundant in Northern 

 Ohio. 



The Yellow- throated Vireo frequents secluded woods and banks of ra- 

 vines and streams, and appears to be partial to oak forests. They are 

 generally seen high in the trees, usually singly or in pairs. The song of 

 the male is shorter than that of the Warbling Vireo, less varied, and in a 

 higher key. In Massachusetts its habits are described by Dr. Biewer as 

 very diHerent. He states that he has "found no one of the genus so 

 common in the vicinity of dwellings, or more familiar and fearless in its 

 intercourse with man." In our gardens it is a rare visitor in May. 



The nest ot this bird is constructed much like that of other members 

 of this genus, except that it is profusely covered with moss. It is at- 

 tached to a fork of one of the lower branches of a tree, from three to ten 

 feet from the ground. The eggs are white, marked with spats of rosey- 

 brown, and measure about .83 by .64. 



Vireo solitaeius (Wils.) V. 



Blue-h-eaded A^ireo; Solitary Vireo. 



Vireo solkarius, Whbaton, Ohio Agric. Kep. for I8b0, 365, 375; Reprint, 1861. 7, 17; Food 

 ol Buds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, utiS; Reprint, 1875, 5.— Langdon, Cat. Birds 

 ol Cio., 1877, 7 ; Journ. Cin. Soo. Nat. Hist., i, 1878, 114; Reprint, .5. 



Laninreo soUtarius, Langdon, Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879 174 • Re- 

 print, 8. 



Mmoivapa solitaria, Wilson, Am. Orn,, ii, 1810, 43. 



Vireo aoMarius, Viellot, "Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. N.,'' xi, 1817. 



Lanivireo aoUtarim, Allen, Am. Nat., iii, 1869, 507, 579. 



Above, olive green, crown and sides of head bluishash in marked contrast ; a broad 

 white line from nostrils to and around eye and a dusky loral line ; below white, flanks 

 washed with olivaceous, and axillaries and crissum pale yellow; wmgs and tail dusky, 

 most of the feathers edged with white or whitish, and two conspicuous bars of the same 



