. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America [microform]. Ornithology; Ornithology; Birds; Birds; Ornithologie; Ornithologie; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. WKITE-EYED VIREO. ViREO NOVEBORACENSIS. Char. Above, olive, shading to ash on hind neck and lump; line from nostril to and around eyes, yellow ; beneath, white, duller on throat and breast; sides shaded with yellow ; wings and tail dusky; wing-bars yellow. Length about 5 inches. A'es;". Suspended from forked twig of low bush in a thicket, some- times on edge of swamp; composed of various muierials, —grass, twigs, — orname
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America [microform]. Ornithology; Ornithology; Birds; Birds; Ornithologie; Ornithologie; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. WKITE-EYED VIREO. ViREO NOVEBORACENSIS. Char. Above, olive, shading to ash on hind neck and lump; line from nostril to and around eyes, yellow ; beneath, white, duller on throat and breast; sides shaded with yellow ; wings and tail dusky; wing-bars yellow. Length about 5 inches. A'es;". Suspended from forked twig of low bush in a thicket, some- times on edge of swamp; composed of various muierials, —grass, twigs, — ornamented with mubs and lichens, and lined with grass, etc. Eggs. 3-5 ; white, spotted around larger end with brown ; X This interesting little bird appears to be a constant resident within the limits of the United States; as, on the 12th of Jan- uary, I saw them in great numbers near Charleston, S. C, feeding on the wax-myrtle berries, in company with the Yellow- Rumped Sylvias. At this season they were silent, but very familiar, descending from the bushes when too, and peeping cautiously, came down close to me, looking about with complacent curiosity, as if unconscious of any danger. In the last week of February, Wilson already heard them singing in the southern parts of Georgia, and throughout that month to March, I saw them in the swampy thickets nearly every day, so that they undoubtedly reside and pass the winter in the maritime parts of the Southern States. The arrival of this little unsuspicious warbler in Pennsylvania and New England is usually about the middle of April or earlier. On the 12th of March I first heard his voice in the low thickets of West Florida. His ditty was now simply ss^t (with a whistle) wd witte 7v1if ,ve-7vd (the first part very quick). As late as in the first weel. in May I observed a few stragglers in this vicinity. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for
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