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Title: Bird neighbors : an introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Blanchan, Neltje, 1865-1918
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York : Double Day, Page
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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o exquisitely finished, but still a beautifullittle structure of pine-needles, plant-fibre, dry leaves, and twigs,all lichen-lined and bound and rebound with coarse spiders webs. The distinguishing quality of this vireos celebrated song is itstenderness : a pure, serene uplifting of its loving, trustful naturethat seems inspired by a fine spirituality. Red-eyed Vireo (Vireo olivaceus) Vireo or Greenlet family Called also: THE PREACHER Length—^.jy to 6.25 inches. A fraction smaller than the Englishsparrow. Male and J^emale—Upper parts light olive-green; well-definedslaty-gray cap, with black marginal line, below which, andforming an exaggerated eyebrow, is a line of white. Abrownish band runs from base of bill through the eye. Theiris is ruby-red. Underneath white, shaded with light green-ish yellow on sides and on under tail and wing coverts. Hange—United States to Rockies and northward. Winters inCentral and South America. Migrations—April October. Common summer resident. 176
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RED-EYED VIREO.i°u Life size. Green, Greenish Gray, Olive, and Yellowish Olive Birds You see it—you know it—do you hear me? Do you be-lieve it ? is Wilson Flaggs famous interpretation of the song ofthis commonest of all the vireos, that you cannot mistake withsuch a key. He calls the bird the preacher from its declamatorystyle: an up-and-down warble delivered with a rising inflectionat the close and followed by an impressive silence, as if the littlegreen orator were saying, I pause for a reply. Notwithstanding its quiet coloring, that so closely resemblesthe leaves it hunts among, this vireo is rather more noticeablethan its relatives because of its slaty cap and the black-and-whitelines over its ruby eye, that, in addition to the song, are its markedcharacteristics. Whether she is excessively stupid or excessively kind, themother-vireo has certainly won for herself no end of ridicule byallowing the cowbird to deposit a stray egg in the exquisitelymade, pensile nest, where her o

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