50 BIRDS OF -KANSAS. 



SUBGENUS LANIVIREO BAIRD. 



B. 252. R. 140. C. 176. G. 66. U. 628. 



266. Vireo flavifrons VIEILL. Yellow-throated Vireo. Summer resident; quite 

 common. Arrive the last of April to first of May. Begin laying about the 

 20th of May. Nest a pendent one, like all of the Vireo family, but readily 

 distinguished from the others by being thickly adorned on the outside with 

 lichens, never very high from the ground, and in rather an open and exposed 

 situation. All that I have found were in the timber and away from settlements, 

 but writers in the Eastern States speak of them as a familiar bird, nesting in 

 orchards and in gardens, which I have no doubt will be the case here wherever 

 the trees and shrubbery around our prairie homes form an inviting haunt. 

 Eggs, four or five; .82x.58; white, with a very few scattering spots, chiefly at 

 large end, of dark rosy brown; in form oval. 



B. 250. R. 141. C. 177. G. 67. U. 629. 



267. Vireo SOlitarius (WiLS.). Blue-headed Vireo. Migratory; rare. Arrive 

 first of May. 



SUBGENUS VIREO VIEILLOT. 



B. 247. R. 142. C. 185. G. . U. 630. 



268. Vireo atricapillus WOODH. Black-capped Vireo. Summer resident in 

 the gypsum hills in southwestern Kansas. The habits of the birds are but 

 little known. On the llth of May, 1885, I found the birds building a nest 

 near the head of a deep canon, suspended from the forks of a small elm tree 

 about five feet from the ground, hemispherical in shape, and composed of 

 broken fragments of bleached leaves, with here and there an occasional 

 spider's cocoon, interwoven with and fastened to the twigs with fibrous strip- 

 pings, threads from plants, and the webs of spiders, and lined with fine stems 

 from weeds and grasses; above, it was screened from sight by the thick foli- 

 age of the trees, but beneath, for quite a distance, there was nothing to hide 

 it from view. The material of which it was made, however, so closely resem- 

 bled the gypsum that had crumbled from the rocks above, that the casual 

 observer would have passed it by unnoticed. I regret that I could not stay 

 for the eggs, but as the birds are quite common in that vicinity (southeastern 

 Comanche county), I trust that before another season passes I shall be able 

 to describe the eggs. 



B. 248. R. 143. C. 181. G. 68. U. 631. 



269. Vireo noveboracensis (GMEL.). White-eyed Vireo. Summer resident; 

 common. Arrive the last of April to first of May. Begin laying about the 

 middle of May. Nest on low bottom lands at the edge of the timber, in 

 thickets, suspended in a small open space from grape and other wild running 

 vines and briers, two to four feet from the ground; made of hemp-like fibers, 

 bits of old leaves, and mosses from decaying stumps and logs, and lined with 

 fine stemlets of weeds and grasses. Eggs, four or five; .73x.54; clear white, 

 with a few scattering spots of purple and dark-reddish brown about large end; 

 in form oval. 



B. 246. R. 145. C. 183. G. 69. U. 633. 



270. Vireo bellii AUD. Bell's Vireo. Summer resident; abundant. Arrive the 

 last of April to first of May. Begin laying the last of May. Nest in hedges, 



