WHITE-EYED VIREO. 



ViREO NOVEBORACENSIS. 



Char. Above, olive, shading to ash on hind neck and rump ; line 

 from nostril to and around eyes, yellow ; beneath, white, duller on throat 

 and breast; sides shaded with yellow; wings and tail dusky; wing-bars 

 yellow ; iris white in the adult. Length about 5 inches. 



Nest. Suspended from forked twig of low bush in a thicket, some- 

 times on edge of swamp ; composed of various materials, — grass, twigs, 

 etc., — ornamented with moss and lichens, and lined with grass, etc. 



Eggs. 3-5 ; white, spotted around larger end with brown ; 0.75 X 0.55. 



This interesting little bird appears to be a constant resident 

 within the limits of the United States; as, on the 12 th of Jan- 

 uary, I saw them in great numbers near Charleston, S. C, 

 feeding on the wax-myrtle berries, in company with the Yellow- 

 Rumped Sylvias. At this season they were silent, but very 

 familiar, descending from the bushes when whistled too, and 

 peeping cautiously, came down close to me, looking about with 

 complacent curiosity, as if unconscious of any danger. In the 

 last week of February, Wilson already heard them singing in 

 the southern parts of Georgia, and throughout that month to 

 March, I saw them in the swampy thickets nearly every day, 

 so that they undoubtedly reside and pass the winter in the 

 maritime parts of the Southern States. The arrival of this 

 little unsuspicious warbler in Pennsylvania and New England 

 is usually about the middle of April or earlier. On the 1 2th 

 of March I first heard his voice in the low thickets of West 

 Florida. His ditty was now simply ssU (with a whistle) wd 

 wltte witte we-wd (the first part very quick). As late as in 

 the first week in May I observed a few stragglers in this vicinity 



