Vireo, Warbling 



Wilson Flagg represents it by the words, "Brigadier, 

 Brigadier, Brigate," and designates the bird as "The 

 Brigadier. " 



The nest is generally pendulous (with generally a free use 

 of moss), and ambitiously and securely suspended at 

 great elevations. In our elms I have seen one of these 

 airy cradles at the very summit of one of the most gigantic, 

 more than one hundred feet from the ground. 



Nuttall's Ornithology. 26 



VIREO, SOLITARY or BLUE-HEADED 



The solitary vireo may be distinguished from other 

 vireos at a glance by its bluish head. It is to be sought 

 in the woodlands. 



M. A. WILLCOX. Common Land Birds of New England. 29 



In form its music resembles the red-eye's .... and 

 the yellow-throat's. It has, too, .... a musical chat- 

 ter suggestive of the Baltimore oriole's and a pretty 

 trilled whistle. Wood bird as it is, it will sometimes 

 permit the greatest familiarities. Two birds I have seen 

 which allowed themselves to be stroked in the freest manner 

 while sitting on the eggs, and which ate from my hand 

 as readily as any pet canary. 



TORREY. Chapman's Handbook of Birds. 21 



The solitary vireo builds a pensile nest . . . not so 

 high from the ground as the yellow-throated vireo 's, nor 



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