VIREOS 



(631) Vireo griseus griseus 



(Borf(/.) 



WHITE-EYED VIREO. Iris 

 white. PlumaRe as shown; upper 

 parts bright oUve-green; wings with 

 two whitish bars; lores, forehead and 

 orbital ring bright yellow; throat and 

 breast white; sides and flanks bright 

 yellowish. L., 5.00; W., 2.40. 



Range — Eastern U. S. from Mass. 

 and Wis. south to the Gulf. Winters 

 south from the Gulf States. 



(631a) V. g. maynardi 



KEY WEST VIREO. Southern 

 Fla. 

 (633) Vireo belli belli Audubon 



Ashy-gray, changing to olive-green 

 on the rump; lores and eye-ring whit- 

 ish; yellowish on the sides. L. 4.70. 

 From 111. and S. Dak. south to Mexico. 



birds before they would leave the nest. Their nests, which 

 are suspended from forks of bushes or trees at low elevations, 

 are basket-shaped like those of the Red-eye, but the exterior 

 is often decorated with lichens or catkins. 



BLACK-CAPPED VIREOS occur rarely and locally 

 north to Kansas and are common nowhere during breeding 

 season unless possibly in western Texas. They are rather 

 more active than any of the preceding species, their habits 

 and songs both partaking of the character of those of the 

 following one. 



WHITE-EYED VIREOS, which by the way are cor- 

 rectly named, for they actually do have white eyes, are very 

 abundant in the Southern States but only casual or local in 

 their distribution in northern ones. They frequent bushes 

 or thickets from which retreats they are more often heard 

 than seen. They are as secretive as Chats and their songs 

 are as varied and astonishing, consisting principally of loud 

 clear whistles and chuckings. Different individuals have 



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