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Vireo Belli, Audubon. 



BELL'S VLREO. 



Vireo Belli, AuDUDON, Birds AmiT. VII. 1844, 3.33 ; jjl. 48.5 (Missouri). 

 So. V. Feb. 1851, 150. — B.uud, P. I{. Ucp. IX. Birds, 335. 



• Cassik, Pr. A. N. 



Sp. Char. Similar lo ]\ yilfus, but smallur. Olive-green above, tinged with asliv on 

 the top and sides of Lead. A short line tVoni the bill oxer the eye, and re"ion around 

 lower eyelid, white ; lores dusky. Beneath, yellowish-white ; ou the sides of body and 



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posteriorly, sulpluir yellow. Two faint bars of whiti.-^h across the wing coverts ; inner ter- 

 tiaries edged broadly with whitish. Third quill longest, the rest successively shorter, 

 except the second, which is a little shorter than the seventh. Spurious primary about 



7. Belli. 



two fifths the second, and more than one third of the third. Length, 4.50 ; extent, 

 7.00; wing, 2."25 ; tail, 2.25. Iris brown; bill horn-color, below pale bluish; feet lead- 

 color. 



Ilab. INIissouri River and Eastern Texas. 



Thi.s species appears to belong to the region between the IJocky Moim- ^ 

 tains and the Missouri Eiver, where it is by no means rare. The nest, as 

 in otlier species, is built between two forks of a horizontal twig, and 

 with the eggs are much like those of the wliite-eyed greeulet, V. novcbora- 

 ccnsis. 



