. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . m-bered. Like its near congener, it also sings during the warmest part of .the day, andeven in July and August, when almost all other birds are silent. Like all other Vireos, the Warbling Greenlet builds an elaborately woven andbeautiful basket-like nest. It is usually suspended at a height from thirty to fifty feet,and is built in a horizontal twig near the top of the tree, secure from
. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . m-bered. Like its near congener, it also sings during the warmest part of .the day, andeven in July and August, when almost all other birds are silent. Like all other Vireos, the Warbling Greenlet builds an elaborately woven andbeautiful basket-like nest. It is usually suspended at a height from thirty to fifty feet,and is built in a horizontal twig near the top of the tree, secure from intrusion fromtheir human neighbors, and protected by the near presence of man from all their moredreaded enemies. It is almost always protected from rain and sun by a canopy ofleaves. In the far West, in Utah, Mr. Ridgway found nests, which were built in aspensonly about four feet from the ground. Other nests, on the contrary, were buUt fifty toseventy and even hundred feet from the ground, right under the canopy of foliage ofsuch large trees as the elms, maples, and poplars, where they may sway in the breeze,but are secure against ordinary accidents of the weather, and remote from most enemies V_ XVI. VIREO FLAVIFRONS VIEILL GELBKEHLIGER - throated VIreo. 6 YELLOW-THROATED VIREO. 295 the inevitable Cowbird alone excepted. The structure is composed of fine bark-strips,flax-like fibres, leaves, bits of paper, and is lined with fine grasses and strips of exterior is very strong and durable, but it does not show such a variety of decora-tive matter as the Red-eyes nest. A few spider nests, now and then a piece of whitebirch bark, compose usually all the decoration the outside of the Warbling Vireos nestshows. The eggs, three to four in number, are clear white, spotted and often blotchedwith dark and reddish-brown at the larger end. Sometimes there are a few fine spotsscattered over the entire surface of the egg. The Warbling Vireo leaves Wisconsin early in S
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