1893 
May 30 
(No 2)   
Concord, Mass.                                                                                               
  it occurred to me to look for the nest and almost at                                                       
the first glance I discovered it suspended after an
unusual manner in the fork of a short branch that grew
out from one of the big uprights stems of the elm about
20 ft. above ground. One of the Vireos, the female I 
thought, was on the nest. She sat rather high and kept 
her head rolling and peering about in the manner of all
Vireos. The male, if in the tree, was silent while I was
watching this nest.
[margin]Nest of
Vireo flavifrons[/margin]
  Soon after leaving the Yellow-throat's nest I heard our                                                   
Warbling Vireo singing in the orchard. Thinking that he
might be on the nest I followed up the sound and
directly saw the nest in the very top of a rather tall tree
attached to the horozontal twigs of a long, upright, leafy
branch. I could see the birds head distinctly. He raised it high
when he sang and his white throat flashed and swelled
in the sunlight. After a few minutes he flew off to a
neighboring tree but I did not see the female take his place.
The nest is inaccessible for the branch is too long and
slender to bear my weight.
[margin]Warbling Vireo
singing on
the nest.[/margin]
  This afternoon I took the Solitary Vireo's nest at                                                         
Holden's Hill. It contained four eggs, slightly incubated.
The [female] was on. She watched me calmly while I erected
a sort of scaffold beneath the tree. Where by means of this
I got within arm's reach of the nest I [delete]reached my[/delete] put
up my hand, touched the birds tail and then her back
lightly but when I attempted to stroke her head she flew.
She & her mate, who now appeared, uttered the scolding chatter
but made no other sound. Both disappeared soon after I
had taken the nest & its contents.
[margin]Nest of
Solitary Vireo[/margin]