304 BIRDS-;— VIREONID^. 



across tips of middle and great coverts ; bill and feet blackish horn-color. Length, SJ- 

 5J ; wing, if-3 ; tail, 2J-2J ; spurious qnill |-|, about J as long as second. 

 Habitat, United States and Canada ; south to Central America. Cuba. 



Not common spring and fall migrant in Southern and Middle Ohio, 

 probably summer resident in Northern Ohio. I have taken it in May, 

 September, and October. With us they are found usually in the lower 

 branches of trees or the higher branches of undergrowth. They are 

 quiet and shy, always solitary, and apparently fatigued, or at least not 

 quite at home with us. 



The Solitary or Blue-headed Vireo appears to be a bird of unequal dis- 

 tribution. Mr. Gentry, speaking of their presence in the vicinity of 

 Philadelphia, where they breed, states that it had recently become much 

 more abundant than formeily, and that during some seasons it was nearly 

 as abundant as the Red-eyed Vireo. In Massachusetts, according to Dr. 

 Brewer, it has been found in a few restricted localities. He describes its 

 song as ''a prolonged and very peculiar ditty, repeated at frequent inter- 

 vals, and always identical. It begins with a pleasant warble, of a grad- 

 ually ascending scale, which at a certain pitch suddenly breaks down 

 into a falsetto noce. The song then rises again in a single" high note, 

 and ceases." 



The nest is described as being rather more loosely constructed than 

 that of other Vireos, and as exhibiting more variety in the materials of 

 which it is composed. It is usually placed within twelve feet of the 

 ground. The eggs are five, of a less crystalline whiteness than those of 

 most Vireos, and spotted uniformly with reddish-brown and dark red; 

 They measure about .77 by .52. 



Vireo noveboeacbnsis (Gm.) Bp. 



AVliite-eyed. "Vireo, 



Vireo noveboracensis, Kibtland, Ohio Geol. Surv., 1838, 16H. — Read, Fam. Visitor, iii, 

 1853, 375; Proo. Philad. Acad. Nat, Sci., vi, 1853, 395. — Whbaton, Ohio Agrie. Rep. 

 for 1860, 365 ; Reprint, 1861, 7 ; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio. Agric. Rep. for 1874, 565 ; 

 Reprint, 1875, 5.— Langdon, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 7; Revised List, Journ. Cin. 

 Soo. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 174; Reprint, 8. 



Muacicapa noveboracensis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 947. 



Vireo noveboracensis, Bonaparte, Journ. Phila. Acad., iv, 1824, 176. 



Above, bright olive-green, including crown ; a slight ashy gloss on the cervix, and the 

 rump showing yellowish when the feathers are disturbed; below, white, the sides of the 

 breast and belly, the axillars and crissum, bright yellow; a bright yellow line from nos- 

 trils to and around eye ; lores dusky ; two broad yellowish wing-bars ; inner secondaries 

 widely edged with the same ; bill and feet blackish plumbeous ; eyes white. Length, 



