BED-EYED VIEEO. 



VIREO OLIVACEUS. 



THIS lively, tireless singer, running rapidly after 

 insects in the tops of the forest trees, singing as 

 he goes, is heard more hours in a day and more days in 

 the season than any other bird. There is no difficulty 

 in distinguishing him, the bird so easy to hear and so 

 hard to see. The clear, high tones of his rich voice are 

 a constant repetition of a few triplets, but so ingeniously 

 arranged as not to become wearisome: 



This illustration, containing the substance of the red- 

 eyed vireo's song, has much in common with the music 

 of other birds. The nest is after the fashion of the 

 oriole's, hanging, as I have found it, beneath the fork 

 of small beech limbs, five or six feet from the ground. 

 It is a nice little pocket, as the cow-bird well knows. 



