oe if a aatees wood pewee sad wide a ee and — 
had stayed for the winter, instead of going south. When 
the operaglass actually found them, there were still doubts, 
for while they looked a bit like the pewee, they also resem-_ 
bled the kinglets. A watcher followed where the singer (?) 
chose to flit that morning for an hour and a half, getting 
glimpses of the dull olive upper parts, the dingy yellowish 
lower regions, the two prominent wing bars, and the in- | 
complete, whitish, eye-ring. The loud calls were not those 
soft, high tones of the kinglets, ‘‘ze-i, ze-i,’ but were 
repeated for long periods at a time from the same spot, _ 
while a kinglet is aways on the go. They pould. be aed the 
rare Anthony Vireo. | ce 
The calls varied, but any one was repeated over and 
~ over until the bird seemed to feel that the notes given. were 
as perfect as he could make them, when he would make a 
| shige change. - He usually began with a deliberate, grating 
‘‘ne-eet”’ until one ached for the throat that needed oiling. 
: : Winien he was ready, he changed to “pe-weet”’, and later to 
‘“‘ve-eep”; but his favorite was ‘““mu-zeerp’’, which call, when | 
the bird wae near, appeared to have double tones, the lighter 
one being almost the whine of a lonesome puppy. This call _ 
-was lost when the bird was some distance away, and the first 
syllable faded when the listener was within walls. 
| As one writes, hear him calling “tiz sweet’; and 
wonder if he is thinking of the big green larva which he was 
seen banging yesterday on a limb, first on one side, then on 
_ the other, until it was in a state where it. could not wriggle. 
‘Twas hard on the caterpillar, but probably it was put to 
‘sleep not realizing it was being swallowed. | 
 Oceasionally in February this bird gave a short song 
which was almost the same as that which a friend thinks 
the Western Warbling Vireo sings through the tree-tops 
when he returns in May: “I am just as sweet as I can be’; 
while his “tiz sweet” call is almost the same as that of the 
Finat strain of the Cassin Vireo. These birds are common 
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