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Blue-headed, or Solitary Vireo
Adult--Upper parts greenish; head blue gray, with conspicuous white ring round the eye, and white between eye and bill; under parts whitish, tinged on the sides with greenish yellow; wings have two white bars. Length--5.61.
Breeding Range--Chiefly in the northern part of the United States, and in the higher parts of the Alleghanies further south; rarely in northern New Jersey.
The nest is of the regular vireo type. The eggs, 3 to 4 in number, are white with few dark spots, sometimes in a wreathlike cluster around the larger end. Size--.81 x .62.
These birds are inhabitants of the woods, though they sometimes breed in apple trees near houses. A pair bred in an apple tree that almost touched a house, and the young could be seen from my window, as they left the nest; this was in South Orange, New Jersey.