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atory. We might suppose him to be repeating 

 moderately with a pause between each sen- 

 tence, 'You see it, you know it, do you hear 

 me? Do you beHeve it?' All these strains are 

 delivered with a rising inflection at the close 

 and with a pause as if waiting for an answer. " 

 Thoreau spoke of him as singing "like a Robin 

 at even, incessantly," and there is more sim- 

 ilarity in their songs than is here expressed, for 

 the notes of the two birds are much alike in tone 

 quality. But where the Robin is always hurried 

 and evidently anxious to get to the end, the 

 Preacher is deliberate, unhurried. 



The summer range of this bird is very exten- 

 sive, over the greater part of North America 

 from the Gulf to Labrador, even to the Arctic 

 regions. They winter from Florida southward. 

 The nest of the Red-eyed Vireo is suspended 

 from the fork of a limb of maple, birch, elm or 

 apple tree. It is made of bits of birch bark, 

 hornet's paper and plant fibre, lined with finest 

 grass. In the nests I find bits of white birch 

 bark are very conspicuous. The eggs are white 

 with reddish spots. It is said the male aids in 

 incubation, and often sings as he sits on the nest. 

 The nesting season is rather late. They arrive 

 in New York City in early May and leave 

 toward the end of October. 



Yellow-throated Vireo. Like others of the 

 family this Vireo spends its time largely in 

 the leafy treetops. In migration they are seen 

 about city parks and lawns, in the orchard 

 and along the roadside. But as the nesting 

 season approaches they withdraw to the soli- 



