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It is probable that, like the Bahama vireo, which also has a variety of 

 call songs, the white-eye occasionally gives all of these detached notes in the 

 form of a continuous song. 



The nests of the white-eye are placed low in a thicket, and although 

 the outside is frequently partly or wholly covered with birch baik or bits 

 of paper, such is not always the case, when the nest is hard to distin- 

 guish. The eggs are also much like those of other vireos. The white-eyes 

 migrate early in September to winter in abundance in Florida and southward 

 to Central America. 



GROUP TWO. 



1 Red-eyed Vieeo. Olivaceous green above, head slaty blue, mar- 

 gined above the eye with a daik line, beneath this is a light line, and from 

 the bill through the eye a darker line. Beneath, white. Iris, red. 



Arrives from the south about May 1st and frequents woodlands of all 



Fig. 74. 



Red-eyed Vireo. 



descriptions, and even parks. Abundant. Breeds from the Southern States 

 northward, even beyond New England. 



Song. A continuous warble given with deliberation, more or less divid- 

 ed into distinct syllables, but not into a series of notes, scmetimes en this 

 account being called the preacher bird. After uttering a series of syllables 

 which are difficult to translate into any English words, two notes like " Sweet 

 William" are given with more or less distinctness, according to the individual. 

 Nests usually placed in woodlands, either high or low according to the fancy 

 of the bird. Both nests and eggs are decidedly vireo-like, but otherwise 

 there is nothing very characteristic about them. The red-eyes depart for 

 Central and Northern South America about the middle of September. 



2 Warbling Vireo. Dull greenish above, top of head scarcely differ- 

 ent, no distinct line through eye. White beneath, slightly yellow on sides. 

 The plainest of all our vireos. 



