SOLITARY VIREO. 303 
iorly shaded with olive, posteriorly with plumbeous; extreme forehead, superciliary 
line, and ring around eye, yellow; lores dusky ; wings dusky, with the inner second- 
aries broadly white-edged, and two broad white bars across tips of greater aud median 
coverts; tail dusky, nearly all the feathers completely encircled with white edging; bill 
and feet dark leaden-blue; no spurious quill. Length, 52-6; wing, about 3; tail, only 
about 24. | 
Habitat, Eastern United States and British Provinces; west to lowa and Kansas; 
south to Mexico, Central America, and British Columbia, Cuba. 
Common summer resident, especially in Northern Ohio. Breeds. Mr. 
Langdon gives it as largely migrant in the vicinity of Cincinnati, where 
but a few remain and breed. In the immediate vicinity of Columbus, it 
is a not common spring and fall migrant in the last week of April, May, 
and September, but I have found them nesting in oak woods, ten or 
twelve miles distant. Mr. Read states that it is abundant in Northern 
Ohio. 
The Yellow-throated Vireo frequents secluded woods and banks of ra- 
vines and streams, and appears to be partial to oak forests. They are 
generally seen high in the trees, usually singly or in pairs. The song of 
the male is shorter than that of the Warbling Vireo, less varied, and ina 
higher key. In Massachusetts its habits are described by Dr. Brewer as 
very different. He states that he has “found no one of the genus so 
common in the vicinity of dwellings, or more familiar and fearless in its 
intercourse with man.” In our gardens it is a rare visitor in May. 
The nest of this bird is constructed much like that of other members 
of this genus, except that it is profusely covered with moss. It is at« 
tached to a fork of one of the lower branches of a tree, from three to ten 
feet from the ground. The eggs are white, marked with spots of rosey- 
brown, and measure about .83 by .64. 
VIREO SOLITARIUS (Wils.) V. 
Wlue-headed Vireo; Solitary Vireo. 
Vireo solitarius, WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 365, 375; Reprint, 1861, 7, 17; Food 
of Birds, ete., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 565; Reprint, 1875, 5.—Lanepon, Cat. Birds 
of Cin., 1877, 7; Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1878, 114; Reprint, 5. 
Lanwireo solitarius, LANGDON, Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 174; Re 
print, 8. 
Muscicapa soliiaria, WILSON, Am. Orn., ii, 1810, 43. 
Vireo solitarius, ViELLOT, ‘‘ Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. N.,” xi, 1817. 
Lanivireo solitarius, ALLEN, Am. Nat., iii, 1869, 507, 579. 
Above, olive-green, crown and sides of head bluish-ash in marked contrast ; a broad 
white line from nostrils to and around eye and a dusky loral line; below white, flanks 
washed with olivaceous, and axillaries and crissum pale yellow; wings and tail dusky, 
most of the feathers edged with white or whitish, and two conspicuous bars of the same 
