YELLOW-THROATED V1REO. 



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- 



tifully marked and colored bird than a " v 



flavifrons other member of his tribe. The back is a 



L. 5.75 inches clear olive green modified to gray on the 

 May loth 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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