Vireo phi 1 ade 1 Milieus 
Lake Umbagog, Maine. 
1894. 
Sept. 3 
Sept. 9. 
^ Among many small birds in a mixed flock in the birch 
gpove on the Point I recognised a Philadelphia Vireo . The 
last was very tame and I watched him some time at close range. 
He appeared to feeding chiefly on caterpillars, —smooth, 
greenish or brown ones. I saw him take and swallow one which 
was fully two inches long. It gave him considerable trouble 
and he was obliged to shake it and beat it violently with his 
bill before he could get it down. 
It was a little foggy at daylight this morning, a fact 
which may account for the finding, by Will Sargent, in the 
middle of the Lake, to-day, of a Philadelphia Vireo floating 
dead, back up. It doubtless became bewildered while attempt¬ 
ing to cross the Lake and flew about in circles until exhaust*- 
ed. 
1894. 
Sept. 3 
Sept. 9. 
