. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Western Warbling Vireo dotted or spotted or very rarely blotched, chiefly at larger end, with dark brown or brownish black. Av. of 20 California-taken eggs, x (.72 x .52). Season: May-June, according to altitude; one brood. Range of Vireosylva gilva.—Temperate North America, south in winter to Guatemala. Range of V. g. swainsoni.—Western North America, breeding from southern British Columbia, southwestern Mackenzie and northeastern Al
. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Western Warbling Vireo dotted or spotted or very rarely blotched, chiefly at larger end, with dark brown or brownish black. Av. of 20 California-taken eggs, x (.72 x .52). Season: May-June, according to altitude; one brood. Range of Vireosylva gilva.—Temperate North America, south in winter to Guatemala. Range of V. g. swainsoni.—Western North America, breeding from southern British Columbia, southwestern Mackenzie and northeastern Alberta, south to Lower California, Sonora, and western Texas, to the eastern border of the Rocky Mountain states; south in winter to Guatemala. Distribution in California.—Summer resident from uppermost Transition zone down to wooded and watered portions of uppermost Lower Sonoran zone, practi- cally throughout the State. Found only in or near deciduous trees of riparian asso- ciation. More broadly distributed and abundant during migrations. Migrations.—Spring arrival: Pasadena, March 23, 1895 (Grinnell); Gaviota pass, April 1, 1912; Santa Barbara, March 29, 1913; March 28, 1914; March 20, 1915; March 13, 1916; March 18, 1920. Autumn, last seen: Los Angeles, October 4, 1901. Authorities.—Heermann (Vireo gilviis), Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., ser. 2, ii., 1853, p. 269 (Calif.); Baird (Vireo swainsonii), Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv., vol. ix., 1858, p. 336, in text (orig. desc.; type from Petaluma); Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, p. 501 (syn., desc, habits, nests and eggs, food, etc.); Beal, U. S. Dept. Agric, Biol. Surv. Bull., no. 30, 1907, p. 39 (food); Rust, Condor, vol. xxii., 1920, p. 85, figs, (nesting habits); Grinnell, Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool., vol. v., 1908, p. 108 (San Bernardino Mts.). IS THERE a moment in springtime more delicious than that in which the greeting of the returning Vireo falls upon the ear! Fresh as apples and as sweet as apple blossoms comes that dear
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