WHITE-EYED VIREO. 
‘VIREO NOVEBORACENSIS. 
Cuar. 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. Length about 5 inches. 
Vest. 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. 
£ggs. 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 12th 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 12th’ 
of March I first heard his voice in the low thickets of West 
Florida. His ditty was now simply ss’¢ (with a whistle) wé 
witte 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 
