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age, VanBuren Co., found a nest 

 with two eggs, July i8, 1894. 

 Nest was placed in hazel bush 

 eighteen inches up and composed 

 of pieces of rotten chips — such as 

 the Chickadee pecks out of its 

 hole — moss, small pieces of 

 leaves, cobwebs and lined with 

 very fine grass and inner bark 

 fibers of wild grape-vine. 



6jj. V. bellii. {Aud.) 

 BELLS VIREO. 



The notes on this Vireo are 

 not voluminous enough for the 

 compiler to derive from them 

 any general conclusions as to 

 numbers, dates and nesting site. 



Mr. Law finds it abundant in 

 Dallas Co., but less so in Winne- 

 bago. He has found the species 

 breeding in the former, and Mr. 

 Fred Hamlin took a set of three 

 incubated eggs on June 23, 1894. 

 One of these was situated in a 

 hazel bush one foot up. 



Mr. Woods finds it of common 

 occurence in Fayette Co., but 

 not abundant. "The eggs aver- 

 age a triife smaller than the other 

 species." 



Mr. Peck, writing from Black 

 Hawk Co., reports it abundant 

 everywhere among thickets and 

 underbrush in summer. The 

 nest, which is small, he finds sit- 

 uated two to six feet from the 

 ground. Noted as a late migrant. 



breeding far into August. It "is 

 almost as quarrelsome," he says, 

 "as the Yellow-throated. Its 

 song is lively and shrill and dis- 

 tinguishable at a great distance." 



Mr. D. L. Savage says, "Not 

 uncommon, favorable locations 

 being in^'f-brartible bushes and 

 thickets of undergrowth. It has 

 a rollicsome little song which al- 

 ways brings gladness with it. I 

 have never had the good fortune 

 to find a nest, although I have 

 searched repeatedly for it, while 

 the old birds were making quite 

 an ado. It must be well con- 

 cealed." 



Mr. Bryan writes that he has 

 seen it quite numerous in Mahaska 

 Co., along wood-roads; and has 

 secured one nest in a hazel bush 

 in a river pasture. 



Mr. Irons says that the well 

 known voice of this little bird is 

 a familiar sound in the wood- 

 lands of Pottawattamie Co. 



Mr. Brown finds it a quite 

 common summer resident in 

 Scott Co., nesting in late May 

 and early June, usually at the low 

 elevation of from two and one- 

 half to ten feet. ' 'A quiet, re- 

 tiring species and much more 

 common in the small brush 

 patches in prairie districts than in 

 the vicinity of water courses or 

 heavy woods." 



