BIRDS CONSPICUOUSLY YELLOW AND 
ORANGE 
Yellow-throated Vireo 
( Vireo flavifrons) Vireo or Greenlet family 
Length — 5.5 to 6 inches. A little smaller than the English spar- 
row. 
Male and Female — Lemon-yellow on throat, upper breast ; line 
around the eye and forehead. Yellow, shading into olive- 
green, on head, back, and shoulders. Underneath white. 
Tail dark brownish, edged with white. Wings a lighter 
shade, with two white bands across, and some quills edged 
with white. 
Range— North America, from Newfoundland to Gulf of Mexico, 
and westward to the Rockies. Winters in the tropics. 
Migrations — May. September. Spring and autumn migrant ; 
more rarely resident. 
This is undoubtedly the beauty of the vireo family — a group 
of neat, active, stoutly built, and vigorous little birds of yellow, 
greenish, and white plumage; birds that love the trees, and 
whose feathers reflect the coloring of the leaves they hide, hunt, 
and nest among. “We have no birds,” says Bradford Torrey, 
“so unsparing of their music: they sing from morning till night.” 
The yellow-throated vireo partakes of all the family charac- 
teristics, but, in addition to these, it eclipses all its relatives in the 
brilliancy of its coloring and in the art of nest-building, which it 
has brought to a state of hopeless perfection. No envious bird 
need try to excel the exquisite finish of its workmanship. Hap- 
pily, it has wit enough to build its pensile nest high above the 
reach of small boys, usually suspending it from a branch over- 
hanging running water that threatens too precipitous a bath to 
tempt the young climbers. 
However common in the city parks and suburban gardens 
this bird may be during the migrations, it delights in a secluded 
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