1879. 
196 
Vireo pliiladelphicus. 
Maine (Lake Umbagog). 
(June 5) 
Identified the song of this species to-day by shoot¬ 
ing the bird in the act. The song is very close to that 
of Vireo olivaeeus but some of the notes are feebler 
" 6. 
Hoard singing at the lower settlement on the Mogal- 
iov/ay. 
" 9. 
In an open grove of poplars and birches in front of 
the Dix House, Dixville Notch, I watched a pair of those 
Vireos for nearly an hour. They kept very near together 
the male singing at intervals (his song as previously 
noted at Upton). They vrere apparently not nesting. 
“ 10. 
The pair noted yesterday came close to the Dix 
House this morning; although it vras raining hard the 
male sang cheerfully at intervals. In motion these 
II Viroos are indistinguishable from Vire o olivaceous and 
V.gilvus. 
“ 11. 
One singing near the boat-landing on Cambridge Di¬ 
ver. 
“ 13. 
Ope singing above the mill, another on B Point. 
They sing much in the tops of the highest trees. The 
one on B Point v;as in the crest of a mighty yellow birch 
at least eighty feet above the ground where the branches 
YThere the branches were lashed by the fierce wind that 
flouted the leaves and swayed the vrhole tree-top, yet 
the bird rarely ceased his notes v/hen the fiercest gusts 
swept by. I can now readily distinguish the song of 
this species from that of the Red-eye; it is feebler 
higher piched, and does not flov/ as smoothlv. 
CD 
I knov; of tv/o pairs breeding v/i thin a mile or two 
of the Iiake House. 
" 21. 
Two males singing—one in birches bordering Cam¬ 
bridge River above the mill, the other on B Point. 
I can now readily distinguish the song from that of the 
Red-eye. It has tvro high notes followed by two lower 
ones. There are, hov/-ever, occasionally interpolations 
Identical both in tone and pitch with some of the notes 
of the Red-ej/'e. 
" 22. 
Male singing near the liouse. 
“ 23. 
ThoDoughly identified a male v/hich was singing in a 
willo\7 in the Lake House garden. 
“ 24. 
A male singing at Newry about five miles north of 
Bethel. 
1880. 
May 31. 
Hoard and sav^ several. 
Juno 3. 
• 
Three males singing yesterday; the song is slower 
than that of V.olivacoous. 
