THE VIEEOS. 



Very interesting birds are the vireos, and 

 I am sure you will like them if you once learn 

 to know them. Perhaps before you see their 

 flitting forms you will hear them singing in 

 the willows or maples, and then you may have 

 to look a long while before your eye catches 

 them. The chief reason why they are so hard 

 to see in the trees is that their colors are vari- 

 ous shades of olive, and therefore closely re- 

 semble the green of the leaves, especially when 

 the sun gilds them. 



There are various kinds of vireos in this 

 country — the warbling, red-eyed, white-eyed, 

 Philadelphia, blue-headed, yellow- throated, and 

 several others. All of them build their nests 

 after the same general pattern; that is, they 

 are fastened by the rim to a branch and are not 

 supported at the bottom — a little basket swing- 

 ing from a bough, making a dainty hammock 

 for the mother bird and her brood. 



The warbling vireo is a familiar little bird, 

 often choosing the trees about a farmhouse 



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