. The birds of Canada : with descriptions of their habits, food, nests, eggs, times of arrival and departure . brightolive-green, above ; white, beneath ; iris, , in a brier or raspberry bush ; eggs, fourin number, reddish-brown. While in search ofinsects it sings merrily and sweetly. Wjlavifrons.—The Yellow-throated Vireo. This is a beautiful and rather uncommon birdwith us. It usually arrives here about the fif-teenth of May. Color, olive-green above ; throatand breast, bright sulphur-yellow ; the remainingunder parts, white. It is quite impossible to saytoo much in favor of this
. The birds of Canada : with descriptions of their habits, food, nests, eggs, times of arrival and departure . brightolive-green, above ; white, beneath ; iris, , in a brier or raspberry bush ; eggs, fourin number, reddish-brown. While in search ofinsects it sings merrily and sweetly. Wjlavifrons.—The Yellow-throated Vireo. This is a beautiful and rather uncommon birdwith us. It usually arrives here about the fif-teenth of May. Color, olive-green above ; throatand breast, bright sulphur-yellow ; the remainingunder parts, white. It is quite impossible to saytoo much in favor of this sweet songster. Thenest is built a few feet from the ground, and isa beautiful specimen of nest-building; the eggsare four in number, pure white, spotted withbrown. V. solitaviiis.—The Solitary Vireo. This beautiful and active fly-catcher is fiveinches in leno-th. Color, above, olive-screen ; 48 Birds of Canada. underneath, white; sides, yellowish-green ; topand sides of the head, bluish-ash. Breeds inCanada. Nests, in the topmost branches of atree ; eggs, four, white. Family ALAUDID.^. THE SHORE LARK. EreinopJiila —The Shore Lark. The Shore Lark arrives in Canada late in thefall. Color, pinkish-brown ; the feathers of theback, marked with dusky-brown ; the frontalband and under parts, wiiite ; neck and throat,yellow ; a crescentric patch from the bill belowthe eye and along the side of the head, anda black pectoral crescent. While on the wingit sings sweetly. Its nest is always built onthe ground ; eggs, four in number, of a faint Birds of Canada. 49 grayish-brown color. The Shore Lark is oneof our few winter birds ; in March it leaves forthe far north to breed. Family FRINGILLID^. Sub-Family CoccOTHRAUSTlNyE.— The Finches. Pinicohi canadensis.—The Pine Grosbeak. This bird visits us during the severest seasonsonly. Its habitat is the extreme northern partof this continent. Large numbers visited thissection of Canada in the winter of 1867. ThePine
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