Nest of 
flavifrons 
Warbling 
Vireo 
singing 
on the ne st 
Nest of 
Solitar y 
Vireo 
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. 
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 horizontal twigs of a long, upright , leafy branch. 
I could see the bird's head distinctly. He raised it high 
when he sang and his white throat swelled and flashed 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. 
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. When by means of 
this I got within arm's reach of the nest, I put up my 
hand, touched the bird's tail and then her back lightly; 
but when I attempted to stroke her head, she flew. She 
and her mate, who now appeared, uttered the scolding chat¬ 
ter but made no other sound. Both disappeared soon after I 
had taken the nest and its contents. 
