302 WHITE-EYED VIREO. 
The PLUMBEOUS VIREO, Vireo solitarius plumbeus ALLEN, a third sub-species, is 
found in the Rocky Mountain region. Dr. Elliott Coues says that it is by far the most 
common Vireo at Fort Whipple, Arizona. All these Vireos resemble closely the true 
species, and the VERA Paz VirEo, Vireo propinquus Rwew., of the Highlands of Guate- 
mala, is also nearly allied to our Blue-headed Greenlet. 
WRAITE-EYED VIREO. 
Vireo noveboracensis BONAPARTE. 
PLaTE XV. Fic. 2. 
T IS a lovely day in June. The air is filled with the delicious fragrance of wild 
flowers, and from all sides the sweet music of numerous birds falls on our ear. 
Nothing is more enjoyed by the friend of nature at this time than to ramble through field 
and forest, to observe, to watch, to listen, to examine. We pass to-day the beautiful 
oak and beech forests, the mixed woods of pines and deciduous trees, to choose lower 
grounds, swampy places, along the edge of the forest. Ignoring the swarms of mos- 
quitoes we penetrate the thickets, where dogwood, snowball’, willows, black, huckle, 
and gooseberry bushes crowd each other, overgrown and interlaced with smilax, 
grape-vines, virgin’s bower, where clethras, azaleas, evergreen andromedas, and other 
beautiful shrubs lend a strange charm to these localities. In such places abound, in the 
North, Catbirds, Thrashers, Indigo Buntings, different Warblers, the common Grouse, 
and other birds. Farther south we find in swampy localities the Mockingbird, the 
brilliant Blue Grosbeaks, Cardinal Redbirds and Painted Buntings, Carolina Wrens, 
Chats, Water Thrushes, Kentucky and Hooded Warblers, and other small birds in great 
numbers. 
In the Northern, Middle, and especially in the Southern States, we meet in such 
localities the very interesting and lively WHITE-EYED VIREO, or ‘‘POLITICIAN,”’ as Wilson 
called it. Where cool springs emerge from the hill-sides, where a rippling brook meanders 
through a dale, where thickets of shrubbery border marshy grounds, there this little 
bird is most frequently found. Dense forests, shady swamps in the woods, dry and 
mountainous localities it always avoids. Its favorite haunts are moist, shrub-covered 
woodland borders and patches of shrubbery among cultivated fields. In such places 
I found this bird from Wisconsin to southern Texas. 
In the vicinity of Chicago I found the White-eyed Vireo in a few pairs only, 
especially near the Desplaines and Calumet Rivers, but it is more numerous farther 
south, in southern Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and_all the way down to 
Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. During the breeding season it is found also in southern 
New England. It “‘is strictly limited northward by the Alleghanian fauna, and is more 
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