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Mosquito aii'l gnats, beware you, 

 Saucy chipmonk, how dare you. 



Climb to my nest in the maple-tree? 

 And dig up the corn 



At noon and at morn? 

 CJieereyo, cheerebly, chee. 



It's small cup shaped pensile nt',=;L, is 

 huug from the twigs of some shnib or 

 tree, anywhere from a few to thirty 

 feet from the ground, thi", is completed 

 by the first of June, ami the foiu*' white 

 eggs, speckled with dark brown spots 

 at the large end, are laid, tliey meas- 

 ure about .80x.6'2. 



A nsst I collected last season and 

 which is now before me on my desk, is 

 composed of pieces of bark, fine grass 

 aild webs of spiders and catHrpillars, 

 lined with line shreds of grape vine 

 l)ark. 



The Cowbird's egg is oftim found in 

 the nest of this species. 



Warbling Vireo, Viret> c/i/v/is. This 

 Vireo breeds plentifully throughout the 

 state, arriving aijout the 25th of April. 

 It is just about as full of song as the 

 Red-ej'ed, from .some group of tall elms 

 along the street you hear it's liquid 

 notes in tones as sweet, that it would 

 seem as if the air melted in them, the 

 very soul of tenderness and ati'er,tions 

 is breathed out upon the ear. This 

 .song compared to that of the Red-eyed 

 is a much softer and more prolonged 

 warble. 



The nest, which is usually built in a 

 maple, in the door-yard, or in an elm 

 along the sti^eet, is suspended in the 

 fork of small twigs at the extremity of 

 a branch and usually at the height of 

 from twenty to fifty feet from the 

 ground, however, it is not always at 

 that height, sometimes only a few feet 

 from the t'l'ound. 



Mr. Rudolph M. Andei'son of Han- 

 cock Co., la., writes, 'T found a nest of 

 the Warbling Vireo suspended from a 

 low drooping limb of an ash tree, only 

 about five feet from the ground." 



The 'nest is somewhat deeper and 

 more substantial than that of the Red- 



eyed, but composed of about the same 

 material. 



Tne eggs are four or live in number, 

 of a pure white color, sparingly dotted 

 ac the larger end with markings of 

 black and brown. The specimens 

 mensnre Hbout .75x.56. 



Yellovy-throated Vireo, Vi7-co Jlavi- 

 frons. l^ot as common as the former 

 species, rather scarce in Henry county, 

 although it's brighter colors make it 

 more conspicuous than the Red-eyed 

 and Warbling. 



Mr Anderson reports it "common in 

 Hancock county; June 18, 1891, I found 

 a nest of this species, which was sus- 

 pended from a small crotch about 

 twenty feet from the ground, and com- 

 posed of dried grass, cottony sub- 

 stances, thill pieces of b.irk, moss and 

 this nearly entirely cjvered over with 

 suuill pieces of newspaper, lined with 

 tiue strips of grape vine bark. The 

 nest contaiuetl four fresh eggs and one 

 egg of the Cowbird." 



Mr. J. Eugene I^aw writes, "This 

 species is not uncommon at I^ake Mills, 

 Winnebago county. This spring, 1893, 

 found one nest which was deserted 

 when two Cowbird's eggs were laid in 

 it." 



Mr. H.M. Savage of Van Buren coun- 

 ty found a pair of Yellow-throated 

 Vireo's building their nest in June^ 

 1892, the nest was completed, but be- 

 fore all the eggs were laid a Blue Jay 

 was rascal enough to destroy the eggs 

 and tear the nest to pieces. It was 

 placed in a hickory, thirty feet from 

 the ground and composed of much the 

 same material as the Red-eyed except 

 there was a good deal of moss and 

 newspaper about it. 



The eggs are four in number, and are 

 easily distinguished from other Vireo's 

 by having the ground color of a roseate 

 tinge ami the spots of dark brown 

 much more over the entire egg. Spec- 

 imens measured aI)out .8.jx.G5. 



The song of this species is much like 



