Veery. Wilson's Thrush. Tawny Thrush 



The ballad was a pleasant one, the tune was loud and 



cheery, 

 And yet with every setting sun, I listened for the veery. 



But far away, and far away, the tawny thrush is singing; 

 New England woods, at close of day, with that clear chant 



are ringing; 

 And when my light of life is low, and heart and flesh are 



weary, 

 I fain would hear, before I go, the wood notes of the veery. 



HENRY VAN DYKE. 



VIREO, RED-EYED "THE PREACHER" 



The easiest way to identify it, until it sings, is by the 

 dark stripe through the eye, which is not found in the 

 other vireos, while at short range and in good light the 

 iris has a reddish tinge. 



PARKHURST. The Birds' Calendar. 31 



Its back is olive, and its breast white, of such tints that 

 when the sunlight is on the leaves, our vireo is well disguised, 

 for its back looks like the upper side of the leaf, and its 

 breast like the under side with the sun on it. 



SELECTED. 



The cowbird carefully attends the red-eyes, and deposits 

 an egg in the nest; and the one ornithological wonder is 

 that the bird is fool enough to take care of it. This it 



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