270 THE BIRDS 
FAMILY VIREONID/AZ.—VIREOS. 
GENUS VIREOSYLVA. 
[624]. Vureosylva olivacea (Linneus). Red-eyed 
Vireo. 
Ranezr.—North and South America. Breeds in 
Canadian, Transition, and Austral zones from central 
British Columbia, southern Mackenzie, southern Kee- 
watin, northern Ontario, Anticosti Island, and Cape 
Breton Island south to southeastern Washington, southern 
Montana, eastern Wyoming, eastern Colorado, western 
Texas, northern Coahuila, and central Florida; migrates 
through eastern Mexico, Yucatan and Central America 
(casually to Cuba and the Bahamas); winters in 
Colombia and south to Ecuador and southern Brazil ; acci- 
dental in Nevada, Greenland, and England. 
This bird is a tolerably common breeder with us, though 
not as much so as the White-eyed Vireo. Truly a bird 
of the woods, its beautiful song during the hot summer 
morning suggests coolness itself. The nest is placed near 
the extremity of a limb of a fair-sized tree or bush over- 
hanging bank of pond or stream, from four to fifteen feet 
up, suspended between the crotch. They are extremely 
well-made affairs of fine grasses, plant stems and down, 
bits of rotten wood, bark fiber, and pine needles, invariably 
lined with reddish material, such as cedar bark fiber, pine 
needles, fine grasses or other material of like color. How 
this beautifully made structure, seen in the dead of 
winter when hunting for game, recalls pleasant memories 
of bygone summer days! Fresh eggs May 15th to 30th, 
