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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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distinguishes this birds voicefrom the songs of the other vireos, which are apt to be monoto-nous, as they are incessant. If you are so fortunate to approachthe white-eyed vireo before he suspects your presence, you mayhear him amusing himself by jumbling together snatches of thesongs of the other birds in a sort of potpourri; or perhaps he willbe scolding or arguing with an imaginary foe, then dropping hisvoice and talking confidentially to himself Suddenly he burstsinto a charming, simple little song, as if the introspection hadgiven him reason for real joy. All these vocal accomplishmentssuggest the chat at once; but the minute your intrusion is discov-ered the sharp scolding, that is fairly screamed at you from anenraged little throat, leaves no possible shadow of a doubt as tothe bird you have disturbed. It has the most emphatic call andsong to be heard in the woods; it snaps its words off veryshort. Chicl-a-rer chick is its usual call-note, jerked outwith great spitefulness. 178
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WARBLING VIREO Liie-size. Green, Greenish Gray, Olive, and Yellowish Olive Birds Wilson thus describes the jealously guarded nest: Thisbird builds a very neat little nest, often in the figure of an invertedcone; it is suspended by the upper end of the two sides, on thecircular bend of a prickly vine, a species of smilax, that generallygrows in low thiclcets. Outwardly it is constructed of variouslight materials, bits of rotten wood, fibres of dry stalks, of weeds,pieces of paper (commonly newspapers, an article almost alwaysfound about its nest, so that some of my friends have given itthe name of the politician); all these materials are interwovenwith the silk of the caterpillars, and the inside is lined with fine,dry grass and hair. Warbling Vireo (Vireo gilvus) Vireo or Greenlet family Length—5.5 to 6 inches. A little smaller than the English spar-row. Male and Female—Ashy olive-green above, with head and neckash-colored. Dusky line over the eye. Underneath whitish,faintly washe

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