YELLOW-THROATED VIREO. . 
His tone of voice is a bit argumentative and persuasive, . 
the crescendo attests to that, and what Wilson says of it 
is perfectly true, although he fails to hear the emphasis 
inseparable from the crescendo. ‘‘ This little bird may 
be distinguished from all the rest of our songsters by the 
soft, tender, easy flow of its notes while hidden among 
the foliage. In these there is nothing harsh, sudden, or 
emphatic; they glide along in a kind of meandering 
strain that is peculiarly its own.” 
Yellow- This less common Vireo is a more beau- 
throated Vireo tifully marked and colored bird than any 
Lb ha ber of his tribe. The back i 
jidvifrons other member of his tribe. e back is a 
L. 5.75 inches Clear olive green modified to gray on the 
May oth rump; there are two white wing-bars; the 
throat, breast, and a ring around the eye are bright yel- 
low; this color fades to white at the undermost parts. 
The prevailing tones of color are olive-gray and yellow. 
Female similarly marked. The pensile nest is built of 
shreds of bark and plant fibres well woven together and 
lined with soft grasses; it is suspended from a Y branch 
usually about twenty feet from the ground. Egg white 
sparingly flecked with umber, red-brown, or sepia. The 
range of the bird is throughout eastern North America. 
My first acquaintance with this Vireo dates back many 
years to the day my Manx cat entered the studio with 
the little-creature in his mouth quite dead. I had been 
puzzled by the distinctly different character of two songs 
I had heard, evidently belonging to two species of Vireo. 
These proved to be the songs of the Red-eye and Yellow- 
throat. The attempt to connect each song with the right 
bird was not a difficult task, but I really obtained no as- 
sistance whatever from the books, For two birds whose 
songs were so entirely different it seemed absurd that 
they had been so slightingly treated from a musical point 
of view. 
There are certain radically opposite characteristics 
to the songs of the two species. It is commonly said 
that the Red-eye has a soprano, and the Yellow-throat a 
contralto voice; that is a fairly good comparison as the 
Red-eye really does pitch his voice in a high key and 
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