9 o VIREOS 



^YELLOW-THROATED VIREO 

 Lanivireo fiavifrons. Case 6, Fig. 69 



Breast bright yellow; a yellow ring around the eye, two white 

 wing-bands, bill rather stout. L. 6. 



Range. Nests from Florida and Texas to Canada; winters in 

 the tropics. 



Washington, common S. R., Apl. 19-Sept. 29. Ossining, 

 tolerably common S. R., Apl. 30-Sept. 7. Cambridge, com- 

 mon S. R., May 6-Sept. 10. N. Ohio, common S. R., Apl. 25- 

 Sept. 25. Glen Ellyn, not common S. R., May 2-Sept. 26. SE 

 Minn., common S. R., Apl. 27-Sept. 15. 



A less common bird than the Red-eye, but like it gen- 

 erally distributed through woodland, garden and orchard. 

 Its song resembles the Red-eye's in form but is richer 

 in tone, more deliberately uttered, and not continuous. 

 "See me — I'm here — where are you?" he seems to say, 

 and after a pause repeats the query. 



The nest has the deep cup-shape of our other Vireo's 

 but is externally covered with lichens. The eggs, laid the 

 latter part of May, are white with a few specks of black 

 or brown. 



BLUE-HEADED VIREO 

 Lanivireo solitarius solilarius. Case 6, Fig. 68 



Eye-ring and lores white, head grayish blue, underparts white, 

 the sides yellowish; two wing-bars. L. si. 



Range. Nests from the mountains of northern New Jersey 

 and of Pennsylvania to Canada; winters from the Gulf States 

 southward. 



Washington, common T. V., Apl. 6-May 18; Sept. 6-Nov. 3. 

 Ossining, tolerably common T. V.,'"Apl. 23-May 14; Sept. 8- 

 Oct. 20. Cambridge, common T. V., rare S. R., Apl. 20— May 8; 

 Sept. 15-Oct. 5. N. Ohio, common T. V., Apl. 17-May 20; 

 Sept. 1-30. Glen Ellyn, not common T. V., May 9-19; Aug. 11- 

 Oct. 9. SE. Minn., common T. V., May 3-Sept. 28. 



We know this Vireo chiefly as a migrant, one of the 

 earliest of the group of small arboreal wood-haunting 

 birds (Vireos and Warblers) to reach us in the spring. 



