Vireo solitarius. Brood of young
Cock.
1875. MASS. (Middlesex Co.) [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
June 15 [June 15, 1875] absolutely nothing worthy of mention.
Found two nests of Vireo olivaceus (4 & 3 eggs
well advanced), a nest of Seth. ruticilla [Setophaga ruticilla] 4,
well along; and a nest of D. virens [Dendroica virens] in
a yellow pine about 20 ft. up with the
lining torn out, and empty; the [male] was
singing near the spot and probably
the 2nd nest was somewhere near. Found
a pair of Vireo solitarius in a piece of
heavy timber and a few strips of bark
etc. attatched [attached] to a pendant oak twig
about the height of one's head indicated
perhaps the site of the future nest.
Stumbled upon a brood of four cock
in a tall maple & oak growth near
a brook. Two of the young rose first
then the old [female] and next the two remaining
young. They were lying close together but
scattered in all directions at the first
rise. Marking one of the young birds
carefully I flushed him again when
he went off in good style for some 200
yds. At this the mother bird which had
disappeared at the first alarm over a 
knoll, came back and flying slowly
by with dangling legs lit within ten
yards and with wings wide spread fluttered
off over the leaves, trying poor thing to
induce us to follow her. The young
were about two-thirds grown, or the 
size of an English snipe. Neither they
nor the parent produced any audible
whistling [delete]when[/delete] in flying. I think
this is the 2nd clutch of the same parents
that I robbed of their eggs in Apr. [April]