. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . luish-ash on rump; mark-ings about eye yellow; white wing bars; wing and tail feathers dark,edged with whitish; below, yellow from throat to belly, which is white;sides olive, shading into gray. Nest. —A rather large pensile cup, hung from forking twigs, three to twenty feetfrom the ground. Eggs. —White, with black and brown or purplish spots about larger end. Season. — May
. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . luish-ash on rump; mark-ings about eye yellow; white wing bars; wing and tail feathers dark,edged with whitish; below, yellow from throat to belly, which is white;sides olive, shading into gray. Nest. —A rather large pensile cup, hung from forking twigs, three to twenty feetfrom the ground. Eggs. —White, with black and brown or purplish spots about larger end. Season. — May to September. The Yellow-throated Vireo was once evidently an inhabitantof open forests of great deciduous trees, although it is some-times found in pines ; but since the destruction of the originaltimber growth in this Commonwealth it has learned to seekthe great shade trees that have grown up along streets andabout residences or in pastures. The groves of large oaksand other deciduous trees that are found on well-cared-forestates are among its favorite breeding places. It oftendwells in old orchards. Thus it has come to live about thehabitations of man, and in eastern Massachusetts is more 208 USEFUL commonly seen there in the breeding season than in deepwoods. The nest of this bird, which is about a weeli in the build-ing, is outwardly one of the handsomest specimens of birdarchitecture to be found anywhere. It is difficult to see how it is possible for a bird to con-struct such a nest, and coverit so tastefully with lichensand plantdown. Undoubtedlythe skillful use of caterpillars webserves in attaching these ornamen-tal materials. The bird is comparatively deliber-ate in both song and movement, and, though naturally shy when it was con-Fig. 73. —Yellow-throated ° , . vireo, two-thirds natural fined to the Open woods, it has now^^^ become rather fearless, and may be readily watched with a glass as it moves among the tall song is a little louder th
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