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AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OF MICHIGAN. 



264-()24-(170). Vireo olivaceus {Linn.). *Red-eyed Vireo; 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; '-Macki- 

 nac Island" (S. E. White); E.E.Brewster finds this species very common at Iron 

 Mountain; " Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); breeds; often double brooded; nests in June 

 on the horizontal branches of trees, usually in woodlands, occasionally in orchards; the 

 nest is very beautiful; "nests in Traverse City" (L. W. Watkins); nests suspended, 

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

 •spotted with blackish dots. 



Brotherly Love Vireo, natural size. 



2(J.'>-62<»-(173). Vireo philadelphicus (Cass.). * Philadelphia Vireo; Broth- 

 erly-love Vireo; Brotherly-love Greenlet. 

 Rare; migrant; taken at the college Sept. 11, 1889; "rare in Kalamazoo County" 

 (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, have taken several in Kent 

 County" (S. E. White); we find it not uncommon here this May, 1893; Forbes found 

 (report Michigan State Horticultural Society, 1881, p. 204) that 35 per cent of food 

 consisted of canker worms. 



Warbling Greenlet. 



206-627-(174, 175), Vireo gilvus {VieilL). * Warbling Vireo; Warbling 



Greenlet. 

 Common throughout the state; April to Sept.; " common at Ann Arbor " (Dr. J. B. 

 Steere); "common at Plymouth" (J. B. Purdy); "Hillsdale and Lenawee Counties and 

 Upper Peninsula" (A. H. Boies); "Mackinac Island" (S. E. White); breeds; has been 

 known to steal material for nest building from King Birds' nests at Plymouth, Michi- 

 gan (see O. and O., Vol. XIV, p. 93); nests and eggs as in Vireo olivaceus, except nests, 

 are slightly smaller, with softer lining, and the eggs less specked; " one of the very few 

 birds that sing as it sits on its nest " (Dr. M. Gibbs); Forbes found (report of Michigan 

 Horticultural Society, 1881, p. 204) that 35 per cent of food was canker worms; " nests 



