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Vireo olivaceus in British Columbia and Washington. — Mr. Chap- 
man’s recent record (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y., Vol. Ill, 1890, 
p. 149) of the presence of the Red-eyed Vireo at Ducks and Ashcroft, 
British Columbia, was the first intimation that has been given of this 
bird’s occurrence anywhere west of the Rocky Mountains ; and though 
the western limit of its known range was thus greatly extended, it re- 
mained a doubtful question whether the species was to be found through- 
out the intermediate country, or whether these localities might not be 
isolated, outlying portions of its habitat. The latter view seems improb- 
able in the light of the facts I have now to record. 
On July 27 and 28, 1891, I made a trip on a small steamboat from 
Golden, B. C., a little town on the Canadian Pacific Railway, up the 
Columbia River to its source in Lake Windermere, about a hundred miles 
southeast of Golden, and on the 29U1 I returned by the same route. The 
deck of a moving steamboat is not the most favorable point from which to 
observe the small birds on the river’s bank, yet on the way up I heard five 
Red-eyes singing, and on the return trip I noted nine. Several of them I 
was able to see satisfactorily. This upper reach of the Columbia, lying in 
a narrow valley between the Rockies and the Selkirks, is about a hundred 
and fifty miles east of Ducks. 
Again a few days later (Aug. 4), several, hundred miles farther down the 
Columbia, at the Little Dalles, Washington I heard a Red-eye singing in 
some large trees at the edge of the river. This latter place is nearly two 
hundred miles to the south of Golden and about the same distance south- 
east of Ashcroft. 
These facts make it seem at least probable that the species will be found 
in all favorable situations throughout the intermediate region. — C. F. 
Batchelder, Cambridge, Mass. 
Auk IX, Oct, 1892. d. 395-90 
1207. The Genus Vireo in Michigan. By Dr. Morris Gibbs. Ibid., No. 
9, Feb. 28, p. 200. — A review of the six species which occur in the State. 
American Field, XXIII 
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