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habit of the bird, before. You would suppose it incon- 

 venient for so large a bird to maintain its footing there. 

 Scared by my passing [?] in the road, it flew off, and 

 I thought I would see if it alighted on a similar place. 

 It flew toward a young elm, whose higher twigs were 

 much more slender, though not quite so upright as 

 those of the cherry, and I thought he might be excused 

 if he alighted on the side of one ; but no, to my surprise, 

 he alighted without any trouble upon the very top of 

 one of the highest of all, and looked around as before. 



WARBLING VIKEO 



[See under General and Miscellaneous, p. 426.] 



YELLOW-THROATED V1REO 



May 19, 1856. Hear and see a yellow-throated vireo, 

 which methinks I have heard before. Going and coming, 

 he is in the top of the same swamp white oak and sing- 

 ing indolently, ullia — eelya, and sometimes varied to 

 eelyee. 



VIREOS (UNSPECIFIED AND UNIDENTIFIED) 



May 7, 1852. The vireo comes with warm weather, 

 midwife to the leaves of the elms. 



Jan. 13, 1856. Took to pieces a pensile nest which I 

 found the 11th on the south shore of Walden on an 

 oak sapling (red or black), about fifteen feet from the 

 ground. Though small,it measures three inches by three 

 in the extreme, and was hung between two horizontal 

 twigs or in a fork forming about a right angle, the third 

 side being regularly rounded without any very stiff mate- 



