SOME BIRDS THAT COME IN MAY 407 
“There are several other Vireos with richer, more 
melodious voices that you will learn to name after you 
have made your first bowing and speaking acquaintances 
in Birdland. The Red-eyed, however, is the largest and 
most easily named of them all if you remember his love 
of preaching, his white eyebrow, and gray, black-edged 
cap. He will be with us all summer, leaving in early 
October with the last flocks of Barn Swallows. 
RED-EYED VIREO 
When overhead you hear a bird 
Who talks, or rather, chatters, 
Of all the latest woodland news, 
And other trivial matters, 
Who is so kind, so very kind, 
She never can say no, 
And so the nasty Cowbird 
Drops an egg among her row 
Of neat white eggs. Behold her then, 
The Red-eyed Vireo ! 
— Fartu C. Les, in Bird-Lore. 
THREE LISPERS AND A VENTRILOQUIST 
“When the trees are putting on their best and greenest 
leaves, many new sounds mingle with the hum of insects 
among the branches. You pause and look up The 
in the confusing mass of fluttering green and Redstart 
sunbeams to find, if possible, the origin of these sounds. 
“Many feathered shapes are fluttering about, some 
flying after the manner of birds, while others flit and move 
in the irregular fashion of butterflies, while the notes they 
utter, instead of being full-throated, have a sort of childish 
lisp. 
