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THE RED-EYED VIREO. 



lion, 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 

 from 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 v he was under observation. One 



could recom- mend to such a zealous devotee the 



Taken in Tou-a 



Photo by Lynds Jones. 



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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 



1 By courtesy of The Wilson Bulletin this picture appears in .advance of its publication by that journal 



