296 THE RED-EYED VIREO. 
tion, for those which linger at greater heights are often indistinguishable from 
Warblers of unknown rarity, and their occasional diffidence is much deplored 
by those who shoot in haste and repent at leisure. 
The Red-eyed Vireo is an indefatigable singer, and when he really gives 
attention to it, as when the mate is sitting, he produces a quantity of sound 
little less than astonishing. One bird to which I once listened at midday had 
chosen for his station the topmost bare twig of a beech tree a hundred feet 
irom the ground, and from this elevated station, he poured out his soul at the 
rate of some fifty phrases per minute, and without intermission during the half 
hour in which he was under observation. One 
could recom- » mend to such a zealous devotee the 
Taken in Towa 
Photo by Lynds Jones. 
A DOUBLE NEST OF THE RED-EYED VIREO.! 
BOTH THE MALE AND THE FEMALE WERE SITTING WHEN FOUND. 
Chinese fashion of writing prayers (or songs) upon the rim of a wheel, and 
attaching it to water-power. There would be some time left then for bug- 
hunting. The bird sings more or less during the entire period of its residence 
in the north. I heard one two years ago at Columbus singing with undimin- 
ished vigor on the seventh day of October, at high noon. The Red-eye’s notes 
are sweet and smooth and clear, higher-pitched and a little more rapid than 
those of the Yellow-throated Vireo, from which, however, it requires to be 
carefully distinguished. It has also a comparatively infrequent scolding or 
7 1 By courtesy of The Wilson Bulletin this picture appears in advance of its publication by that journal 
