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ing, were very watchful of all around them, including the flies and other 
insects that fiew near. 
On the morning of July 22, when the young were five and a half 
days old, the comings and goings of the vireos were recorded in detail 
from 6:50 until 8:34 A.M. The notes for this sample of home life follow: 
6:50 A.M. Observer arrives; there was no singing during his approach 
or while he was examining the young. 
6:55 — Male(?) bird came to nest and looked at the young. 
6:58 — Female(?) came to nest with a small green larva and gave it 
to one of the young. 
7:00 — The male began to sing in the nesting bush, but his singing 
was not continuous. 
7:05 — Female(?) brought a green larva about one-half inch long 
and gave it to the young; a moment later she took excrement and swal- 
lowed it. 5 
7:10 — The female approached, without “churring”, carrying a larger 
brownish or fuscous larva; but at a little distance from the nest she 
decided to swallow this herself. The male was singing elsewhere. 
7:12 — One of the parents came back, but I was writing and failed 
to see whether or not he fed the young. 
7:22 — The female came “churring” and fed a small brown mass to 
the young, examined them repeatedly, first with one eye and then the other, 
and flew away. A moment later the male sang a measure of his song from 
a position about thirty inches directly above the nest, and looked down 
carefully into it from that position. 
7:29 — One of the birds came quietly to look at the young; then got 
into the nest, facing northwest, but stayed only a moment; and immediately 
when it had left I heard some squeaking in the blackberry briers (doubtless 
the male). 
7:33-34 — The male came to the nest, examined the young very care- 
fully, and put his head into the nest several times. While he was there 
his mate alighted on the twig which supported the nest; he went away and 
she fed some small matter to the nestlings. Then I heard the squeaks from 
the blackberries, followed by the more usual song from the nest bush. 
7:48 — Female(?) came “churring”. She had something relatively 
large which had been crushed, probably a smooth caterpillar. Four times 
she put it into the mouth of a nestling, and each time withdrew it and 
readjusted it in her bill before inserting it again, as the young one 
evidently could not manage it. The head of the youngster was held so high 
that I could see the food in its mouth. Evidently the parent did not 
attempt to push it down the nestling’s throat but merely inserted the end 
of it in the open mouth. Finally she left it, and presumably it was 
swallowed. This morsel seemed almost half as big as the nestling’s body. 
7:58 — One parent came “churring’’, fed a crushed caterpillar and 
examined the nest. Then the male sang near by. 
8:14 — The male arrived, examined the nest, and twice picked some- 
thing from the inside of it; then he entered the nest and brooded. At first 
