The Hutton Vireo 
Finding that the Vireos were making no progress, I returned the 
branch with the nest and lashed it into place. The female made prompt 
acknowledgment of the restored status, but was rather more curious 
as to the new fastenings than solicitous as to the welfare of the young. 
Only after the lapse of some minutes did she visit the young, and then 
for sanitary purposes. Next, I again removed the nest, very slowly 
this time, holding the branch aloft so that my movements might be 
followed. The male dashed at me repeatedly, snapping the mandibles 
when nearest my head, and alternating this cavalier treatment with 
snatches of song. When 1 had proceeded six feet, he desisted and paid 
no further attention to me. Again I lashed the branch to the new 
situation, and this time met only frigid indifference. Neither bird 
appeared at the old site, nor was any outcry made. Again, in despair, 
I lashed the branch in the old situation. Neither bird attended my 
efforts. The male thereafter spent his entire time preening his feathers, 
at a point thirty feet away, while the female absented herself outright. 
Finally, after about fifteen minutes, the mother bird returned bearing 
a large white moth. She offered this to each youngster in turn, but 
it was disdainfully refused. Then she ate it herself and proceeded to 
brood. The male made no move to rustle food, but sang a little, or else 
gave the greater note of disquiet—all rather inconsequential, it seemed 
to me, considering the very unusual experience which they had been 
called upon to undergo. Thus do our idols disappoint us, and thus does 
the commonplace thrust its dull shoulder across life’s gleaming horizon. 
No. 116 
Hutton’s Vireo 
A. O. U. No. 632 and 632c. Vireo huttoni huttoni Cassin. 
Synonyms. —Dusky Vireo. Coast Vireo. Includes northern form, pre¬ 
viously recognized as Anthony’s Vireo. 
Description. — Adults: Above dull olive (olive on head and cervix, olive- 
citrine on back and scapulars); wings and tail dusky, edged chiefly with pale olive- 
green; two prominent wing-bars of pale olive-yellow (barium yellow to reed-yellow) 
or whitish, formed by tips of middle and greater coverts; tertials broadly edged with 
pale olive-yellow on outer, and with palest olive-yellow on inner webs; outer web of 
outermost rectrix whitish; underparts dingy olive-yellow (marguerite yellow), and more 
or less washed, chiefly on breast and sides, with olive-buffy; lores pale; an orbital 
ring of pale olive-yellow, interrupted midway of upper lid by spot of dusky. Bill 
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