BIRDS CONSPICUOUSLY YELLOW AND 

 ORANGE 



Yellow-throated Vireo 

 fKireotijrifriyns) Vireo or Greealet family 



I'-.^th — ^.^ to 6 inches. A little sm.iiier than the English sp,;:- 



row. 

 Jf.:.'e ^^J Jiemaf^ — Lemop.-vellow on thro.it. upper breast; line 



around the eye .'.nd forehead. Yeiiow. shading into oli\ e- 



greer.. on head, back, and shoulders. L'nJeme.uh white. 



Tail dark brownish, edged with white. Wings a lighter 



shade, with two white bands across, and some quiils edged 



with white, 

 J^jn^e^'Sonti America, iirom Newfoundland to Gulf of .Mexico, 



and westward to the Rockies. Winters in the tropics. 

 Jf:^rj<,-~s — .Mav. September. Sr^n;: and autum.n m.igran: : 



more rarely resident. 



This is jadoubtedlv the beautv of the vireo familv — a g'?i;r 

 of neat. acGve. stoutly bailt. and \igorou> little birds of yellow. 

 greenish, and white plumage: birds that love the trees, and 

 whose feathers reflect the coloring of the leaves they hide, hun:. 

 and nest among. "We have no birds, savs Bradford Torre\. 

 ■ so unsparing of their music: they sing from morning till night. 



The yellow-thro -ited vireo p:irtakes of all the family chiU'ac- 

 terisrics. but. in addition to these, it eclipses all its relatives in the 

 brilliancy of iLs colomng and in the art of nest-building, which it 

 has brought to a state of hopeless perr'ecTion. No ensious bird 

 need f^" to e.xcel the exquisite ilnish of its workmanship. Hap- 

 pily, it has wit enough to build its pensile nest high above the 

 reach of small boys, usually suspending it from, a branch over- 

 hanging running water that threatens too precipitous a bath to 

 tem.pt the young climbers. 



However common in the city parks and suburban g.irdens 

 this bird may be during the migr.nions. it delights in a secluded 



