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LAND BIRDS 
634.\\GRAY VIREO. Feo mene 
Length: 5.60-5.75. 
Famity: The Vireos. 
Adults: Similar to least vireo, but lores and eye-ring entirely white ; 
wings brownish, with wing-band indistinct or wanting. 
Young: Similar to adults, but upper parts with brownish tinge and 
634. GRAY VIREO: 
“* The best songster of all 
the vireos,”’ 
wing-bar buffy white. 
Geographical Distribution : Southern California, Arizona, 
New Mexico, Western Texas, and Mexico. 
California Breeding Range: 
Southern California along 
the San Bernardino moun- 
tains. 
Breeding Season: March to 
June. 
Nest: Made of coarse dry 
grasses and shreds of bark ; 
lined with finer grasses ; 
placed in thorny bushes or 
trees, 4 to 6 feet from the 
ground. 
Eggs: 3 or 4; white, thinly 
spotted with reddish brown, 
chiefly at the larger end. 
Size 0.72 X 0.53. 
THE level mesas and 
the wide cations of 
Southern California are the haunts of 
the Gray Vireo. Lacking the calm 
patience of its family, this species hunts 
nervously among the scant foliage for 
food, flying restlessly from one clump 
of the sparse growth of brush to an- 
other and singing its quaint roundelay 
whenever it stops long enough to do 
