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Family VIREONID.^ Vireos or Greenlets. 



Beautiful singers; exclusively inpectivorous; very benertcial. 



Gencs VIREO Vikii.l 



Red-eyed Vireo, natural size. 



2«7-(>24-(170). Vireo olivaceus (Linn.). *Red-eyed Virko; Red-eyed Greenlet. 



One of our most common birds; throughout the state; frequents parks and wood- 

 lands; April to September; included in Cabot's list of Birds of Lake Superior; 

 "abundant summer resident at Mackinac Island" (S. E. White); E. E. Brewster 

 tinds this species very common at Iron Mountain; "'Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); 

 breeds; often double brooded; nests in June on the horizontal branches of trees — 

 the nests are often suspended from horizontal branches— usually in woodlands, 

 occasionally in orchards; the nest is very beautiful; " this beautiful singer ie common 

 at Palmer. Marquette Co., and abundant in orchards at Albion and St. Joseph" 

 (O. B. Warren); " nests in Traverse City " (L. W^. Watkins); nest suspended below 

 limb, not hanging like those of Orioles; eggs three to four, rarely five, white, 

 spotted with blackish dots. 



Brotherly Love Yireo, natural size. 



268-626-(173). Vireo philadelpliicus (C'as.5.). *Philadel,phia Vikko; Bkotherlv- 

 LOVE Vireo; Brotherly-love Greenlet. 



Rare; migrant; taken at the college September 11, 1889; " rare in Kalamazeio Co." 

 (Dr. M. Gibbs); Dr. M. Gibbs writes me that he has taken it in Kalamazoo and 

 Ottawa Counties; "quite common fall migrant at Mackinac Island, where it eats 

 raspberries; have taken several in Kent Co." (S. E. White); we find it not uncom- 

 mon here this May, 1893; Forbes found (Report Michigan State Horticultural Society. 

 1881, p. 201) that 35 per cent of food consisted of canker worms. 

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