Green, Greenish Gray, Olive, and Yellowish Olive Birds 
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Migrations—May. Early October. Common during migrations; 
more rarely a summer resident south of Massechinetel Bir 
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By no means the recluse that its name would imply, | 
solitary vireo, while a bird of the woods, shows a charming ct Eo si 
osity about the stranger with opera-glasses in hand, who ft “1 | 
penetrated to the deep, swampy tangles, where it chooses to 
live. Peering at you through the green undergrowth with a 
eye that seems especially conspicuous because of its encirclir 
white rim, it is at least as sociable and cheerful as any member @ 
its family, and Mr. Bradford Torrey credits it with ‘‘ winnir 
tameness.” ‘* Wood-bird as it is,” he says, ‘‘it will someti 
permit the greatest familiarities. Two birds I have seen, 1 
allowed themselves to be stroked in the freest manner, while sit- 
ting on the eggs, and which ate from my hand as readily as any 
pet canary.’ 
The solitary vireo also builds a pensile nest, swung from ae 
crotch of a branch, not so high from the ground as the yellc 
throated vireo’s nor so exquisitely finished, but still a beautiful 
little structure of pine-needles, plant-fibre, dry leaves, and twigs, 
all lichen-lined and bound and rebound with-coarse spiders’ webs. 
The distinguishing quality of this vireo’s telebrated song roe is 
tenderness: a pure, serene uplifting of its loving, trustful nate 
that seems inspired by a fine spirituality. > 
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Red-eyed Vireo 
(Vireo olivaceus) Vireo or Greenlet family 
Called also: THE PREACHER 
Length—s5.75 to 6.25 inches. A fraction smaller than the English 
sparrow. 
Male and Female—Upper parts light olive-green; wel ica : 
slaty-gray cap, wi with black ack marginal line, below which, and 
forming an exaggerated eyebrow, is a line of white. A pes: 
brownish band runs from base of bill through the. The 
iris is ruby-red. Underneath white, shaded with li ‘a 
ish yellow on sides and on under tail and wing coverts. 
Range—United States to Rockies and northward. Winters in 
Central and South America. 
Migrations—April. October. Common summer resident. 
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