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slower th.in the Wagtails. Where they have chosen their 

 home, they select a certain stone, bush or post, where the 

 male has his observation point and when danger approach- 

 es either flies rapidly and easily away, or drops like a rocket 

 into the grass. Curiously enough they really have no true 

 song, but only a few monotonous notes, yet the Fallow Pipit 

 is an attractive bird. Especially in the region in which he 

 lives he gives a charm to many a desolate waste or rough 

 rocky hill, where no other creatures seem to thrive. Of all the 

 Pipits he is the best nest builder, and while his nest is bulky 

 it is yet the most difficult to find as each pair has a rather 

 large territory. I never was lucky enough to find the nest, 

 but have heard and read that it is well made and finely 

 lined, containing five eggs, which are white, densely covered 

 with reddish minute spots, varying considerable in size but 

 little in color. He is one of the first birds to leave Germany ; 

 in August he starts for the south, traveling by day and 

 by night in small companies, quietly, scarcely noticed by 

 any one, just as his whole life is little known to any one but 

 the forester or ornithologist, who seeks him in his barren 

 home. 



THE YELLOW-THROATED VIREO. 



( Vireo flai-tfrons.) 

 BY J. WARREN JACOBS, WAYNESBURG, PA. 



One of the most interesting little birds with which I have 

 become acquainted is the Yellow-throated Vireo. Much of 

 my ethusiasm is due, perhaps, to the fact that they so suc- 

 cessfully spirited away their little moss-like hanging-basket, 

 that my efforts to reveal it were futile, for a number of years, 

 until after the young had flown. Repeated search, however, 

 ^yas rewarded by the finding of a nestful of fledglings, which 

 blinked at me from the brim of the nest, and showed every 



