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abundantly at Manchester, the nest hanging from the horizontal crotch of a limb " (L. 

 Whitney Watkins). This sweet singer is a very valuable bird. 



Yellow-throated Vireo, natural size. 



267-628-(176). Vireo flavifrons (Vieill.). * Yellow-throated Vireo. 



Common; April to September; " common at Ann Arbor " (Dr. J. B. Steere); " rare 

 in Wayne County " (B. W. Swales); " common in Hillsdale and Lenawee Counties " 

 (A. H. Boies); "Mackinac Island" (S. E. White); breeds; nests in June, in trees; "nest 

 from seven to thirty feet high, usually about twelve, and covered with lichens " (Dr. M. 

 Gibbs); eggs rosy white, spotted with brown. 



2t>8-629-(177). Vireo solitarins (Wils.). * Blue-headed Vireo or Greenlet; 

 Solitary Grebnlet. 



Rare; May and October; migrant; S. E. White finds this at Mackinac Island; E. E. 

 Brewster has taken it at Iron Mountain; Dr. M. Gibbs writes me that it is a summer 

 resident in Wexford County. 



White-eyed Vireo, natural size. 



269-631-(181). Vireo noveboracensjs (Omel.). *White-eyed Vireo or Green- 

 let. 

 "Scarce summer sojourner, breeds" (Dr. M. Gibbs on authority of Messrs. A. B. 

 Covert and the late D. D. Hughes); "Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); embraced in 

 Cabot's Birds of Lake Superior. 



Family MNIOTILTIDyE. Warblers, Woodland Warblers. 



Small birds; often sweet singers; usually beautiful; mostly insectivorous; eggs 

 almost always bluish white or cream colored specked with brown. Of many killed 

 this spring — 1893 — the stomachs almost invariably contained both seeds and insects. 



