THE OOLOGIST. 



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Mosquito and gnats, beware you, 

 Saucy chipmonk, how dare you, 



Climb to my nest in the maple-tree '< 

 And dig up the corn 



At noon and at morn? 

 Cheereyo, cheerebly, chee. 



It's small cup shaped pensile nest, is 

 hung from the twigs of some shrub or 

 tree, anywhere from a few to thirty 

 feet from the ground, thh is completed 

 by the first of June, and the four White 

 eggs, speckled with dark brown spots 

 at the large end, are laid, they meas- 

 ure about .80x62. 



A nest I collected last season and 

 which is now before me on my desk, is 

 composed of pieces of bark, tine grass 

 and webs of spiders and caterpillars, 

 lined with fine shreds of grape vine 

 bark. 



The Cowbird's egg is often" found in 

 the nest of this species. 



Warbling Vireo, Vireo gi/vus. This 

 Vireo breeds plentifully throughout the 

 state, ariiving about the 25th of April. 

 It is just about as full of song as the 

 Red-eyed, from some sroup of tall elms 

 along the street you hear it's liquid 

 notes in tones as sweet, that it would, 

 seem as if the air melted in them, the 

 very soul of tenderness and affections 

 is breathed out upon the ear. This 

 song compared to that of the Red-eyed 

 is a much softer and more prolonged 

 warble. 



The nest, which is usually built in a 

 maple, in the door-yard, or in an elm 

 along the street, is suspended in the 

 fork of small twigs at the extremity of 

 a branch and usually at the height of 

 from twenty to fifty feet from the 

 ground, however, it is not always at 

 that height, sometimes only a few feet 

 from the p round. 



Mr. Rudolph M. Anderson of Han- 

 cock Co., la., writes, 'T found a nest of 

 the Warbling Vireo suspended from a 

 low drooping limb of an ash tree, only 

 about five feet from the ground." 



The nest is somewhat deeper and 

 more substantial than that of the Red- 



eyed, but composed of about the same 

 material. 



Tne eggs are four or live in number, 

 of a pure white color, sparingly dotted 

 at the larger end with markings of 

 black and brown. The specimens, 

 measure about .75x.56. 



Yellow-throated Vireo, Vireo Jiavi- 

 frons. Not as common as the former 

 species, rather scarce in Henry county, 

 although it's brighter colors make it 

 more conspicuous than the Red-eyed 

 and Warbling. 



Mr. Anderson reports it "common in 

 Hancock county; June 18, 1891, 1 fouud 

 a nest of this species, which was sus- 

 pended from a small crotch about 

 twenty feet from the ground, and com- 

 posed of dried grass, cottony sub- 

 stances, thin pieces of bark, moss and 

 this nearly entirely covered over with 

 small pieces of newspaper, lined with 

 line strips of grape vine bark. The 

 nest contained four fresh eggs and one 

 egg of the Go w bird." 



Mr. J. Eugene Law writes, "This 

 species is not uncommon at Lake Mills, 

 Winnebago county. This spring, 1893, 

 found one nest which was deserted 

 when two Cowbird's eggs were laid in 

 it." 



Mr. H.M. Savage of »Vau Buren coun- 

 ty found a pair of Yellow-throated 

 Vireo's building their nest in June, 

 1892, the nest was completed, but be- 

 fore all the eggs were laid a Blue Jay 

 was rascal enough to destroy the eggs 

 and tear the nest to pieces. It was> 

 placed in a hickory, thirty feet from 

 the ground and composed of much the 

 same material as the Red-eyed except 

 there was a good deal of moss and 

 newspaper about it. 



The eggs are four in number, and are 

 easily distinguished from other Vireo's 

 by having the ground color of a roseate 

 tinge and the spots of dark brown 

 much more over the entire egg. Spec- 

 imens measured about .85x.65. 



The song of this species is much like 



