AVERY BIRD COLLECTION 105 



160. LANIVIREO SOLITARIUS ALTICOLA (Brewster). 

 Mountain Vireo. 



"One example was secured during the migration this 

 fall, the first and only one observed by me." (1891b). 



No. 783. Female. Greensboro. Oct. 23, 1890. W. C. Avery. 



161. VIREO GRISEUS GRISEUS (Boddaert). 

 White-eyed Vireo. 



The first record of this species was No. 12 of Dr. Av- 

 ery's old series, an adult male taken at Greensboro, June 

 8, 1876. The stomach contained "debris of insects and 

 matter which resembled vegetable matter." Four days 

 later he recorded another male, and wrote: "I have not 

 yet learned to distinguish this bird from the preceding 

 {Vireosylva olivacea) by his notes. He rarely leaves 

 the lofty tops of the forest trees. He is small but he 

 does not 'roost low'." 



This note is a palpable error and is included merely to 

 show that the Doctor was just beginning the study of 

 birds in 1876. 



The following is found under date of June 17, 1876 : 



"This is a noisy little bird, and although smaller than 

 the red-eye, his song is much louder. It is very difficult 

 to find the red-eye on account of the feebleness of its 

 note. Concealed among the dense foliage it sings unseen 

 for hours. I yesterday heard for the first time, to -know 

 it, the song of Vireo novehoracensis, white-eyed vireo." 



The following description of No. 31 (old series) taken 

 next day indicates that the Doctor had been studying 

 his "Coues": 



"Upper mandible blackish ; tip of lower mandible white, 

 bordered posteriorly by a dark, sagittiform portion 

 pointing anteriorly in gonys, and extending outwards and 

 backwards to mandibular tomium, sides of under man- 

 dible extending back from gonys proper leaden blue." 



"Abundant. Summer resident. Breeds." (1891b). 



No. 195. Male. Greensboro. Sept. 7, 1889. W. C. Avery. 



No. 551. Male. Greensboro. July 22, 1890. W. C. Avery. 



No. 607. Female. Greensboro. Aug. 24, 1890. W. C. Avery. 



No. 608. Male. Greensboro. Aug. 24, 1890. W. C. Avery. 



No. 633. Female. Greensboro. Sept. 2, 1890. W. C. Avery, 



