. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. VIREONIDiE, VIREOS. â GEN. 53. 119 continent, and several of them are abundant birds of tlie Atlantic States, inhabit- ing woodland and shrubbery. They are exclusively insectivorous, and are therefore necessarily migratory in our latitudes. They build a neat pensile nest in the fork of a branchlet, and commonly lay four or five white speckled e
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. VIREONIDiE, VIREOS. â GEN. 53. 119 continent, and several of them are abundant birds of tlie Atlantic States, inhabit- ing woodland and shrubbery. They are exclusively insectivorous, and are therefore necessarily migratory in our latitudes. They build a neat pensile nest in the fork of a branchlet, and commonly lay four or five white speckled eggs. Next after the warblers, the greenlets are the most delightful of our forest birds, though their charms address the ear and not the eye. Clad in simple tints that harmonize with the verdure, these gentle songsters warble their lays unseen, while the foliage itself seems stirred to music. In the quaint and curious ditty of the white-eye â in the earnest, voluble strains of the red-ej'eâin the tender secret that the warbling vireo confides in whispers to the passing breezeâ he is insensible, who does not hear the echo of thoughts he never clothes in words. ANALYSIS OF SPECIES. , l*rimariea apparently 9 (tlie 1st rudimentary and displaced), (a) rrimaries evidently 10 (the 1st short or spurious), (h) (a) Threat yellow, ' â ⢠fiavi/rons. â white; crown ashy, not Mack-edged, hardly contrasting with back pluliiddpliinis. â black-edged, hack olive; no niax'llary streaks, oHvaceus, â maxillary streaks, harbaiulus, (b) Crown black atricapillus. â not black; spurious quill at least 5 as long as 2Dd and wing 2^ long, vicinior. â not \ as long as 2nd, or wing not long (c) (c) Wing-bands wanting: coloration as in p/itZa(/â¬//»fticws, gilvus, â present; length over 5 in.; back olive, contrasting with ashy blue crown, . . soHtarius. â plumbeous, crown scarcely different, .... plumbeus. â 5 in. or less; wing =tail, both about 2^; 1st quill= ^ 2nd pusillus. â >t
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