. Bird-lore . a horizontalcrotch of a wild plum tree, usually aboutthree feet from the ground. Sometimes,however, it places it in a gooseberry bushor in a patch of buckbrush (snowberry).It resembles very much the Red-eyes nest,perhaps it is slightly smaller, and is muchdeeper than that of the Warbling , plant fibers and line grasses areused in its construction. On June i, 1910, I found an unfinishednest of this species. On June 11, when Ireturned with some companions, the birdwas sitting on three eggs. My visit was on June 18, and againI found the old bird sitting. After seve
. Bird-lore . a horizontalcrotch of a wild plum tree, usually aboutthree feet from the ground. Sometimes,however, it places it in a gooseberry bushor in a patch of buckbrush (snowberry).It resembles very much the Red-eyes nest,perhaps it is slightly smaller, and is muchdeeper than that of the Warbling , plant fibers and line grasses areused in its construction. On June i, 1910, I found an unfinishednest of this species. On June 11, when Ireturned with some companions, the birdwas sitting on three eggs. My visit was on June 18, and againI found the old bird sitting. After severalexposures from a distance of a few feet, Iplaced the camera so that the lens wasonly about eighteen inches distant, makinga number of exposures at one-half secondeach, one of which is the picture herewithprinted. The day was hot, so that the birdwas standing in the nest and had its billslightly opened while panting. It seemedso tame that, out of curiosity I cautiouslyreached out mv hand and touched the end. ELLS VIREO STANDING ON NEST 208 Bird-Lore •of its bill with my finger. Though it wouldhave its picture taken, this was too much,-and it flew away. Probably the bird hadbecome accustomed to people passing byabout a rod away, so that I was nothingout of the ordinary. While I was going homeward I heardthe song of one of these birds nearby. Inalmost the exact spot from which the notesseemed to come I found the nest contain-ing one egg. Had this bird been singingon its nest as the Warbling Vireo often■does? Surely, circumstances would pointto this, for many times before I have foundthe nest in the same place where I haveheard the bird singing. The next time I■came to these nests was on June 22,and I made it a point to discover whethermy belief was true. From some distanceaway, I approached silently behind a bank■over which I soon was able to observe thelaird in question, through a glass, from aboutrfive rods away. It was unaware of mypresence and, of course, acted in a
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