. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. VIREOS lo: BLUE-HEADED VIREO Lanivireo solitarius solitarius {irHson) Other Names.â Solitary Vireo; Blue-headed Green- let. General Description.â Length, 5'4 inches. Fore parts, .^late : upper parts, olive-green; under parts, wliitc. Color.â Adults: Croicn. hiinliu-cl,-, sides of lu-ck. regions around the ears and under the eyes, and cheeks, slate-color or dee/^ slate-gray, deepening into slate-blackish on Ijack portion of lores; front and upper portions of lores and broad eye-ring (interrupted in the front by blackish loral mark), white; back, shou
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. VIREOS lo: BLUE-HEADED VIREO Lanivireo solitarius solitarius {irHson) Other Names.â Solitary Vireo; Blue-headed Green- let. General Description.â Length, 5'4 inches. Fore parts, .^late : upper parts, olive-green; under parts, wliitc. Color.â Adults: Croicn. hiinliu-cl,-, sides of lu-ck. regions around the ears and under the eyes, and cheeks, slate-color or dee/^ slate-gray, deepening into slate-blackish on Ijack portion of lores; front and upper portions of lores and broad eye-ring (interrupted in the front by blackish loral mark), white; back, shoulders, rump, and upper tail-coverts, plain olive- green, the first usually intermixed with slate-gray; wings and tail, slate-blackish with light olive-green edg- ings, the outermost tail-feathers with outer web, white; middle and greater wing-coverts, broadly tipped with yellowish-white or pale sulphur-yellow, forming two sulphur-yellow, yellowish-white, or white faintly tinged with yellow; under wing-coverts pale sulphur-yellow; inner webs of wing- and tail-feathers edged with white; hill, black; iris, deep brown; legs and feet, grayish- blue. Young: Similar to adults but duller in color, with gray of head much tinged with brown, olive-green of back, browner, and white of under parts less pure. Nest and Eggs.â Nest: Pendant, in terminal forks of horizontal branches within lo feet of ground; con- structed of bark strips, leaves, weed stems, and cater- pillar cocoons and firmly fastened witli vegetable- strings and hair and lined with fine grasses. ^: 3 to 5, white or creamy, spotted with umber and chest- nut, chiefly around large end. Distribution.â Eastern North America: north to Prince Edward Island, Keewatin, Athabasca, and. â ing by R. I. Brasher BLUE-HEADED VIREO ij i Early to arrive in the spring and ofte remarkably tame distinct bands; wing-quills with outer webs broadly edged with yellowish-white or pale sulphur-yellow; chin, throat, and middle under parts of
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