. . \VARBLlN(i 51 YELLOW-IHKOATEO \ IKEO (Vireo flavitronsi } Life-size INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS 378 THE YELLOW-THROATED VIREO* The popular name of this species of an attractive familyis Yellow-throated Greenlet, and our young readers willfind much pleasure in watching its pretty movements andhstening to its really delightful song whenever they visit theplaces where it loves to spend the happy hours of some respects it is the most remarkable of all the speciesof the family found in the United States. The Birds o
. . \VARBLlN(i 51 YELLOW-IHKOATEO \ IKEO (Vireo flavitronsi } Life-size INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS 378 THE YELLOW-THROATED VIREO* The popular name of this species of an attractive familyis Yellow-throated Greenlet, and our young readers willfind much pleasure in watching its pretty movements andhstening to its really delightful song whenever they visit theplaces where it loves to spend the happy hours of some respects it is the most remarkable of all the speciesof the family found in the United States. The Birds ofIllinois, a book that may be profitably studied by theyoung naturalist, states that it is decidedly the finest singer,has the loudest notes of admonition and reproof, and is thehandsomest in plumage, and hence the more attractive tothe student. A recognized observer says he has found it only in thewoods, and mostly in the luxuriant forests of the bottomlands. The writers experience accords with that of Audu-bon and Wilson, the best authorities in their day, but thehabits of birds vary g
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