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271-(>*2l)-(17 J). Vireo solitarius {Wils.). *Blue-headed Vikeo ok Greenlet; 

 Solitary Greenlet. 



Rare; May and October; migrant; S. E. White finds this at Mackinac Island; 

 E. E. Brewster has taken it at Iron Mountain; Dr. M. Gibbs writes me Ihat it is 

 a summer resident in Wexford Co. 



White-eyed Vireo, natural size. 



*272-<>31-(lS1 1. Vireo iioveboracensis (Gmel.). * White-eyed Vireo or Green- 

 let. 



"Scarce summer sojourner, breeds" (Dr. M. Gibbs on authority of Messrs. A. B. 

 Covert and the late D. D. Hughes); " have taken two specimens at Port Sanilac " 

 (W. A. Oldfield); "Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); embraced in Cabofs Birds of 

 Lake Superior. 



Family MNIOTILTID.E. Warblers, Woodland Warblers. 



Small birds; often sweet singers; usually beautiful; mostly insectivorous; eggs 

 almost always bluish white or cream colored, specked with brown. Of many killed 

 this spring— 1893 — the stomachs almost invariably contained both seeds and insects. 



Genus MNIOTILTA Vieill. 



Black and White Creeper, natural size. 



•273-636-(91, 92). 3Iniotilta varia {Linn.). Black and White Warblf.k; Black 

 and White Creeper. 



Throughout the Lower Peninsula at least; common; rare in some localities; a 

 pair taken at college by A. B. Cook, May 10, 1893; •' rare summer resident but 

 common migrant at Mackinac Island "(S. E. White); breeds; "not observed nesting 

 at Ann Arbor" (Dr. J. B. Steere); "not common but breeds in Monroe Co. and 



