THE BAY STATE OOLOGIST. 



Notes on Some Birds of Texas, 



BY J. A. S INGLE Y, Esq. 



{continued from page, 43.) 



No. 142. Vireo atricapillus (Wood.), Black-capped Vireo. 



Of this rare Greenlet, I have taken no specimens in this county, and but one 

 elsewhere, but as it may occur here I include it. The bird is dressed in the regu- 

 lation olive-greeen and white. Top and sides of head, black. Length, 4.75: ex- 

 tent, 7.25 inches (Coues.) 



I found a nest of this species in Bastrop County, Texas, in May, 1887. The 

 Colorado River, in the above county, is bordered in places by high bluffs; on top 

 of one of these bluffs, among the scrub pines, I found the nest, differing only from 

 others of the genus I'd found, in the material, which was pine needles and short 

 green moss, with a few fragments of rotten wood. No distinctive lining to the 

 nest could I see, unless a small piece of moss in the bottom could be called such. 

 The materials were put together with the indispensable cobweb. 



The eggs were four in number, of a pure white color. The set is not now in 

 my possession, and not having measurements of the set, I give Davie's, which are 

 .67X.52 inches. 



No. 143. Vireo novaboracensis (GrneL), White-eyed Vireo. 



A common summer resident, arriving in March and leaving us in October. 

 The species differ in habit from others ot the family observed here, in preferring 

 the thickest part of the jungle, and consequently is seldom found away from the 

 bottoms ; a few, only, being tound in the brushy uplands. The bird is bright olive- 

 green above; yellowish on the rump ; below white ; the sides bright yellow. Length 

 5.00; extent, S.00 inches. 



It cannot be said to possess any musical ability. A few notes, emphatically 

 repeated in quick succession, is all I've heard, but its scolding organ is well devel- 

 oped, and it empties out the vials of its wrath as long as the obnoxious object re 

 mains in the vicinity ot its nest. Nidification commences early in April, and 

 from the fact that it is only during that month that eggs are found, I presume that 

 but one brood is raised during the season. 



I once found a bird of this species building its nest, and as it had always been a 

 mystery to me how they managed to swing the purse-like nest to the forks, I 

 did not neglect the opportunity to learn their method, and so I stationed myself 



