1890.] The Notes of Some of Our Birds. 745 
THE NOTES OF SOME OF OUR BIRDS. 
BY JOHN VANCE CHENEY. 
RED-EYED VIREO. 
HIS lively, tireless singer, running rapidly after insects in the 
tops of the forest trees, singing as he goes, is heard more 
hours in a day and more days in the season than any other bird. 
There is no difficulty in distinguishing him,—the bird so easy to 
hear and so hard to see. The clear, high tones of his rich voice 
are a constant repetition of a few triplets, but so ingeniously ar- 
ranged as not to become wearisome: 
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This illustration, containing the substance of the red-eyed 
vireo's song, has much in common with the music of other 
birds. The nest is after the fashion of the oriole's, hanging, as I 
have found it, beneath the fork of small beech limbs, five or six 
feet from the ground. It is a nice little pocket, as the cow-bird 
well knows. 
INDIGO BIRD. 
I had very little acquaintance with this bird, and knew nothing 
of his singing, till I sought him for study in a sunny nook near 
the entrance of the beautiful cemetery at Lynn. There a pair 
spent the season, giving me frequent opportunities to listen to the 
singer. His song was brief, plain, and without variation, and I 
supposed it to be the family song; but, to my surprise, though I 
have heard indigo birds sing many times since, not one of them 
sang that first song, the only one I have been able to copy. 
Am. 
at.— 
