. Birds of Michigan . Brotherly Love Vireo, natural size. 265-626-(173). Vireo philadelphicus (Cass.). * Philadelphia Vireo; Broth-erly-love Vireo; Brotherly-love ; migrant; taken at the college Sept. 11, 1889; rare in Kalamazoo County{Dr. M. Gibbs); Dr. M. Gibbs writes me that he has taken it in Kalamazoo and OttawaCounties; quite common fall migrant at Mackinac Island, have taken several in KentCounty (S. E. White); we find it not uncommon here this May, 1893; Forbes found(report Michigan State Horticultural Society, 1881, p. 204) that 35 per cent of foodconsisted of canker worm
. Birds of Michigan . Brotherly Love Vireo, natural size. 265-626-(173). Vireo philadelphicus (Cass.). * Philadelphia Vireo; Broth-erly-love Vireo; Brotherly-love ; migrant; taken at the college Sept. 11, 1889; rare in Kalamazoo County{Dr. M. Gibbs); Dr. M. Gibbs writes me that he has taken it in Kalamazoo and OttawaCounties; quite common fall migrant at Mackinac Island, have taken several in KentCounty (S. E. White); we find it not uncommon here this May, 1893; Forbes found(report Michigan State Horticultural Society, 1881, p. 204) that 35 per cent of foodconsisted of canker Warbling Greenlet. 266-627~(174, 175). Vireo gilvus (Vieill). *Warbling Vireo; Warbling throughout the state; April to Sept.; common at Ann Arbor (Dr. J. ©); common at Plymouth (J. B. Purdy); Hillsdale and Lenawee Counties andUpper Peninsula (A. H. Boies); Mackinac Island (S. E. White); breeds; has beenknown to steal material for nest building from King Birds nests at Plymouth, Michi-gan (see O. and O., Vol. XIV, p. 93); nests and eggs as in Vireo olivaceus, except nestsare slightly smaller, with softer lining, and the eggs less specked; one of the very fewbirds that sing as it sits on its nest (Dr. M. Gibbs); Forbes found (report of MichiganHorticultural Society, 1881, ) that 35 per cent of food was canker worms; nests ZOOLOGICAL, DEPARTMENT. 109 abundantly at Manchester, the nest hanging from the horizontal crotch of a limb ( Watkins). This sweet singer is a very valuable bird.
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