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and fronts of the houses may reflect heat as from a 
furnace-mouth, the bird will hunt for every lurking fly 
among the leaves, and sing his strange, half-melan- 
choly song, a part of which is lamely represented by 
tsheevoo tshuvee peeait pero ; this from Nuttall. 
The cow-bird carefully attends the red-eyes, and 
deposits an egg in the nest; and the one ornitho- 
logical wonder is that the bird is fool enough to take 
care of it. This it does almost always, although 
evidence of rebellion is not wanting. How the 
habit ever came about is a mystery, and why the 
red-eyes should be so patient about it is more of a 
one. When they have young birds they are careful 
to look after them and defend them when danger 
threatens. Perhaps the recent influx of red-eyes to 
our towns is to escape the cow-birds, for the latter 
do not appear to follow. 
Very different is the White-eyed Vireo. The name 
indicates one of these differences, and this bird has 
two white bands across the wing, which are wanting 
in the preceding species. It is a bird, too, of the 
shrubbery, of tangled nooks in the country; a bird 
we must. look for, not a town-dweller that invites us 
to inspect it. It comes in spring, about the same 
time, and makes the neighborhood lively at once. 
Probably there is no more energetic singer. There 
is not a muscle of its body not in motion, nor a 
feather that is not a-tremble when it fairly shouts, 
“ Take it up easy, easy,” let us hope referring to life's 
burden that it prophetically sees before it. Of course 
this is not its only song, but one of many that have 
a general resemblance to each other; in other words, 
