RED-EYED VIREO. 
broken, interrupted song, and one may always depend 
upon this fragmentary character for its unmistakable 
identification. The dots show the disconnected charac- 
ter of the song perfectly: 
ae 
ava @ oe @ o*% @ " @ fo 
L— e ® J 
e ry 8 
The musical notation in general appearance does not look 
unlike that of the Robin: 
Milegro agitate” DD wll twice 8va. GB 
Or the following: 
Allegro agitato. Sf \ Twice 8va. 
a NT ‘ = nN 
i’) a A SO eee eee ee 2 ee 
V7.2 22 eee ee ed ae eae ees 
pp —— ee at emt fg 
1/9 R Pe SI Ra Sees) ier Pe ee 
But there are really great differences, and appearances 
at best are superficial; the Red-eyed Vireo’s voice is 
pitched on a higher key, the notes are more rapid al- 
though the pauses are much longer, and the whistle is 
an apparently clear one by no means running along in 
unaltering three-note groups. Henry Ward Beecher, 
crediting the Vireo with a devotional nature, has said of 
him, ‘‘ He pauses between each morsel of food to give 
thanks to Heaven,” which is exactly the case if one con- 
siders the half-note rests as the time required to devour 
the morsels! But Wilson Flagg’s description of the song 
places the bird at once among the clergy, and one won- 
ders whether the Vireo is not after all a religious charac- 
ter, for he says: ‘‘ The Preacher is more generally known 
by his note, because he is incessant in his song. . . . 
Tbough constantly talking, he takes the part of a 
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