. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over 250 species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field . light yellowish tinge on the belly; a whitish streak overeye, but no dark line through it. Nest, a cup hung from a fork, from, twenty to forty feet , white, spotted with reddish-brown at the larger end. The Warbling Vireo is a rather common summer resi-dent of southern and central jSTew England and of thelower Hudson Valley. In northernNew York and New England it isconfined to the neighborhoo
. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over 250 species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field . light yellowish tinge on the belly; a whitish streak overeye, but no dark line through it. Nest, a cup hung from a fork, from, twenty to forty feet , white, spotted with reddish-brown at the larger end. The Warbling Vireo is a rather common summer resi-dent of southern and central jSTew England and of thelower Hudson Valley. In northernNew York and New England it isconfined to the neighborhood of vil-lages in the valleys. In most ofNew England, in fact, it is a bird TT- , T -VT- of the village street rather than of Fig. 27, Warblmg Vireo ° the woodland, though it is also found in tall trees along streams. It arrives a little earlierin May than the Eed-eyed Vireo, and leaves in Warbling Vireo is less frequently seen than the Red-eye, as it often stays for hours in tall shade-trees, but itssong is uttered constantly, and affords an easy means of dis-tinguishing it from its relative. It is a true warble, thatis, a succession of smooth notes run into one another, and. PHILADELPHIA VIREO 135 though repeated in the height of the breeding season morethan four thousand times a day, never varies song of the Eed-eye is made up of short phrases ofalmost endless variety. Beginners often have great diffi-culty in distinguishing the song of the Warbling Vireo fromthat of the Purple Finch. The song of the Finch is ex-tremely rapid and energetic; the Vireos is deliberate andlanguid compared with the burst of melody that the Finchutters. The Warbling Vireo, after a period of silence inAugust, sings again in September, but only for a short time,early each morning. Both sexes have a querulous call-note,which suggests the mew of the Catbird. If seen at close range, the Warbling Vireo may be dis-tinguished from the Eed-eye by the dilferent appearance ofth
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