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FAMILY XX.*— YIREONINJE. GREENLETS. 
Genus Lf— YIREO, Viell. GREENLET. 
BELL’S YIREO OR GREENLET. 
Yireo Bellii, Aud. 
PLATE CCCOLXXXV. — Adult Male. 
On the same day that Harris’ Finch was procured, Mr. J. G. Bell, who, 
as I have already said, accompanied me in my journey to the Yellow Stone 
river, &c., shot one of the species which I am now about to describe, and 
which I have named, it being also a new and hitherto undescribed species, 
with great pleasure, after Mr. Bell ; the more especially as Mr. Bell is 
himself a person who possesses a good general knowledge of our birds, and 
was an excellent companion in our not unperilous rambles. 
This species, like other Yireos of the smaller class, is usually found in the 
bottom lands along the shores of the Upper Missouri river, from the neigh- 
bourhood of the Black Snake Hills as far as we went up that river ; finding 
it' in many instances, whether in the bottom lands, overgrown with low 
shrubbery, or along the borders of ravines that discharge the water accumu- 
lating during the spring meltings of the snows that cover the upper country 
prairie land. In its habits it is probably more nearly allied to the White- 
eyed Yireo ( V. noveboracensis ) than to any other ; as although it does not 
possess all the swiftness of movement and quaint look exhibited by that 
species, still it evinces all the movements usually observable in birds of this 
family. 
We never found its nest, although it doubtless breeds in the countries 
which we traversed ; as on many occasions, and during the very heat of 
summer we found it as far up the Missouri river as Fort Union, one of the 
principal and handsomest factories of the American Fur Company 
Bell’s Yireo or Greeklet, Vireo Bellii , Aud. 
* See vol. iv. p. 140. f Ibid. 
