Vireo, Yellow-Throated 



you hear me? Do you believe it?" and the yellow-throat, 

 away up in the tree-top .... ''Doubt it? 'deed 1 

 do!" 



Abbott. Birdland Echoes.^^ 



They excel all their relations in architectural taste and 

 skill, and construct a beautiful nest, outwardly ornamented 

 with hchens, plant down and caterpillar's silk. It is 

 altogether one of the prettiest nests to be found among 

 our specimens of bird-architecture. 



MiNOT. Land and Game Birds.^^ 



WARBLER, BLACK AND WHITE. BLACK AND 

 WHITE CREEPER 



This little warbler is so uniformly striped with black 

 and white that beginners often dub him ''the little zebra 

 bird." 



Florence A. Merriam. Birds of Village and Field. -^ 



Nine times out of ten these active little warblers are 

 mistaken for downy woodpeckers, not because of their color- 

 ing alone but also on account of their common habit of 

 running up and down the trunks of trees and on the under 

 side of branches, looking for insects. 



Neltje Blanchan. Bird Neighbors.^^ 



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