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The Wilson Bulletin — Xo. 91 



THE FEARLESS W.HITE-EYED VIREO. 



BY ARETAS A. SAUNDERS. 



The White-eyed Vireo (Vireo griseiis griseus), when nest- 

 ing and coming- in contact with man, is one of the most fear- 

 less birds that we have. Perhaps I might have written one 

 of the tamest birds, for that is the way many people would 

 express it. But the bird does not show the confiding famil- 

 iarity with man that such birds as the Chickadee and Chip- 

 ping Sparrow show and thus could not properly be called 



Wliite-Eyed Yii'eo Defeiuliug Its Nest. 



tame. It keeps away from man, seeking out the wildest tan- 

 gle of green-brier thickets for its habitat and nest. It is only 

 when man seeks it out, and finds the secret of its nest that 

 it becomes at all " tame," and such tameness is better called 

 fearlessness. 



On the 2Tth day of Alay, l!)14, while hunting birds and 



