. Bird-life: a guide to the study of our common birds . r breakfast or supper, as the casemay be. The Chewinks nest is placed on the ground, often indried grass, beneath a tangle of running wild eggs, four or five in number, are white, finely andevenly speckled with reddish brown. There are three birds who sing not only through the heat of midsummer but are undaunted by the warmth of a midday sun. They are the Wood plSS^fj. ^e^^e. t^e Ked-eyed Vireo, and the In-digo-bird or Bunting. The Pewee andYireo, singing dreamily from the shady depths of a tree,carry the air to the hummed
. Bird-life: a guide to the study of our common birds . r breakfast or supper, as the casemay be. The Chewinks nest is placed on the ground, often indried grass, beneath a tangle of running wild eggs, four or five in number, are white, finely andevenly speckled with reddish brown. There are three birds who sing not only through the heat of midsummer but are undaunted by the warmth of a midday sun. They are the Wood plSS^fj. ^e^^e. t^e Ked-eyed Vireo, and the In-digo-bird or Bunting. The Pewee andYireo, singing dreamily from the shady depths of a tree,carry the air to the hummed accompaniment of insects;but the Bunting, mounting to an upper branch, givesvoice to a tinkling warble, more in keeping with thefreshness of early morning than the languor of , July, surwmer-summers here; morning, iwontide,evening, list to me, he sings so rapidly that human tonguecan scarce enumerate the words fast enough to keep pacewith him. The Indigo-bird is in song when he comes toUs from the South early in May, but it is not until other. Pi,ATE LIX. KED-EYED VIEEO. Pages 164, 165. Length, 625 inches. Crown gray, bordered by black and white ; back,•wings, and tail olive-green ; under parts white. YELLOW-THBOATED VIBEO. Length, Inches. Crown and back greenish yellow; rump gray ;breast bright yellow ; belly white; wing-bars white. CARDINAL. 163 singers have dropped from the chorus that his voice be-comes conspicuous. Not far away his mate is doubtless sitting on her blu-ish white eggs in a nest low down in the crotch of a in his deep indigo costume may be easily identified,but she is a dull brownish bird, about the size of a Ca-nary, sparrowlike in appearance, though with unstreakedplumage, and a difficult bird to name, even when youhave a specimen in your hand, while in the bush, if silent,she is a puzzle. But she is far too good a mother not toprotest if you venture too near her home, and her sharppit or peet usually calls her mate, whom you will re
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