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Vireo gilvus. — On the morning of Sept. 16, 1S95, while on the Boule- 
vard just bevond Prospect Park, Brooklyn, I was attracted by a sustained 
melodious warble, which for the moment I was unable to place, but which 
1 afterward remembered having been formerly fairly familiar with in 
New Jersey as the supposed song of the Warbling Vireo. I had never 
verified this supposition as it had always been heard in the shade trees of 
village streets. In this case the bird was in one of the outer of the four 
rows of shade trees which extend the length of the Boulevard. At my 
approach it Hew into one of a cross row of maple trees, about forty yards 
from that in which it had first been heard, where it was secured, it 
proved to be an adult male Warbling Vireo — a bird which on Long 
Island I had often searched and listened for in vain. For some reason, 
this bird on Long Island is either rare or often overlooked. The latter 
seems the less likely in that its song is very characteristic, as well as 
being one of the sweetest, and most apt to attract attention of all our 
singing birds. Its song is a refrain of trilled notes, varying up-hill and 
down in harmonious modulations, with only the merest pause between 
each effort of, it must be, twenty-five or thirty notes. 
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