. Bird studies; an account of the land birds of eastern North America . ies of this sort he scolds any who dares to in- vireo noveboracensis trude, aud though ofteu iuvisiblc to the eye his abrupt and (Gmei.). characteristic song ever makes you aware of the domain he has preempted. The birds are small, about five inches and a quarter long, and their pre-vailing color seems at first glance to be a rather bright olive green. Ex-amined more closely you find a bird with the entire upper parts of thisshade washed more or less with gray. The wing and tail feathers are dusky,with the exposed edges of
. Bird studies; an account of the land birds of eastern North America . ies of this sort he scolds any who dares to in- vireo noveboracensis trude, aud though ofteu iuvisiblc to the eye his abrupt and (Gmei.). characteristic song ever makes you aware of the domain he has preempted. The birds are small, about five inches and a quarter long, and their pre-vailing color seems at first glance to be a rather bright olive green. Ex-amined more closely you find a bird with the entire upper parts of thisshade washed more or less with gray. The wing and tail feathers are dusky,with the exposed edges of the feathers like the rest of the upper parts, be-coming whitish or light yellow on some of the smaller feathers. There aretwo yellowish white bars on each wing. The region in front of the eyes anda ring about each are bright yellow. The throat and belly are white, and thebreast and sides are greenish yellow shading into the white of these birds in spring and summer have zvhite eyes : in fall many, including rt//the ivniiatitre birds, have brazen WHITE-EYED VIREOS. In Marsh and Swamp. 301 The nesting is much Hke that of the Red-eyed Vireo, and the eggs arehardly to be distinguished from those of that bird. They are three quartersof an incli long and more than half an inch broad. These birds are found in Eastern North America north to New Hamp-shire and Minnesota and west to the Rocky Mountains. They breed fromNorthern Florida and the Gulf States northward, and winter from Floridato Guatemala and Honduras. The Key West Vireo is the geographical race and closely related ally of the White-eyed Vireo, found in South Florida. Here these birds are resi- v^,r TXT-^o^ Tr;^«»« dent and do not Nwest Vireo. , . Vireo noveboracensis may- They are esseutially like the White-eyed Vireos in theirnardi Brewst. hablts and general economy. A little shorter than the White-eyed Vireo, they are genera.\\}\^rajtrr or paler in color and less yellowbelow. The bill
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