Bell’s Vireo or Greenlet

Bell’s Vireo or Greenlet
Vireo bellii, Audubon
Octavo edition, plate 485

“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.”

John James Audubon, Birds of America (New York: J.J. Audubon; Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier, 1840-1844), vol. 8, p. 216.

View bird in National Audubon Society Guide to North American Birds.