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Title: The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, lithographer
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Published by J.J. Audubon Philadelphia : J.B. Chevalier
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ish-grey beneath. Feet bluish-grey. Thegeneral colour of the plumage above is light yellowish-olive, the crown *>fthe head deep grey, bordered on each side by a line of blackish, below whichis a line of yellowish-white passing from the nostril over the eye, the loralspace dusky. Quills brown, yellowish-olive on the outer margin, whitishon the inner. Tail wood-brown, margined with paler. The lower parts arewhite, the breast tinged with pale yellow, the throat and sides with grey. Length to end of tail 4^ inches; extent of wings 7f; bill along the ridgeT62, along the edge of lower mandible f;; wing from flexure 2^; tail 2yJ;tarsus T82; hind toe T32-, its claw f;; middle toe -f;, its claw ff. This species is almost exactly similar to Vireo olivaceas in colour, but isconsiderably smaller, and differs in having the wings shorter, with the firstquill considerably shorter than the fifth, whereas in that species it is alwaysmuch longer, generally exceeding even the fourth. ?s°±9. PL 243.
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4C, - /..: ^ \GJurt trJ .1J fLJ Cith,*PniUtd A. WtrJ T&»~t r/«J 155 THE RED-EYED VIREO, OR GREENLET. -/-Vireo olivaceus, Linn.PLATE CCXLIIL—Male. One of the principal differences between the habits of this and some otherspecies, which are now called Vireos, and the Flycatchers, is, that the formerprocure their food principally by moving about, and along the branches orthe twigs of the trees, by light hops, alternately changing sides, reaching andsecuring their prey by an elastic extension of the legs and neck, without thecontinual snapping or clicking of the bill so common among the Muscicapseon such occasions, and that they seldom make sorties on the wing to anydistance, for the purpose of seizing the insects on which they usually feed.This habit is retained until autumn, when, insects being scarce, the Vireosallies forth to a short distance in pursuit of them, as they may chance topass near the tree on which, in the silent mood of a Flycatcher, it standserect, using the watc

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