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Title: Handbook of birds of eastern North America
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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a forkedbranch ten to thirty feet up. Eggs., three to four, white, with a few specksor spots of black, umber, or rufous-brown, chiefly about tlie larger ends,•80 X -60. The Yellow-throated Vireo is a dweller in tree tops, and whetherin woodland, orchard, or lawn, he seldom comes below the upper storyof his home. But even at a distance his bright yellow breast is a con-spicuous mark, at once distinguishing him from other members of hisfamily. If the Red-eyed Vireo is a soprano, the Yellow-throat is a con-tralto. He sings much the same tune, but his notes are deeper andricher, while they are uttered more deliberately and with greater ex-pression than those of his somewhat too voluble cousin. See me;Im here; where are you? he calls, and at intervals repeats his ques-tion in varying forms. Sometimes he astonishes us by an intricateliquid trill which suggests the wonderful song of the Ruby Kinglet,but which unfortunately is sometimes marred by the scolding notesthat precede or follow it.
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Yellow-throated Vireo.Warbling Vireo. VIREOS. 331 ^ 629. Vireo solitarius ( TT7/s.). Blue-headkd Vireo. (See Fig. 52.)^(/.—fop and sides of the head bluish gray ; eye-ring and lores white ; backolive-green; greater and middle wing-coverts tipped with white, formingtwo distinct wing-bars; outer web of inner secondaries white; under partswhite; sides washed with greenish yellow. L., 5-01; W., 2-9G; T., 2-15; B.from N., -28. Remarks.—This species may be known by its white lores and eye-ring, andbluish-gray cheeks and crown. Range.—Eastern North i^merica; breeds from Connecticut (and south-ward along the crest of the AUeghanies) northward to JNew Brunswick andManitoba; winters from Florida southward. Washington, common T. V., Apl. 10 to May 10; Sept. to Oct. 26. SingSing, tolerably common T. V., Apl. 23 to May 14; Sept, 8 to Oct. 20. Cam-bridge, common T. V., rather rare S. R., Apl. 25 to Oct. 5. Nest.1 pensile, of pine needles, plant down, etc., firmly interwoven, sus-pended from a

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