summer residents on both sides of the Cascade Range so 
that the Anthony Vireo has had chances to learn their 
motifs. 
Some time ago a tind woman led the way at ‘tat ) ‘clock 
in the morning to the haunts of a Red-eyed Vireo, which she 
had been the first to know was to be found in Kirkland, 
Washington. He had his regular route and they listened in 
delight to the various bits of melody which rolled out of his 
bill as they followed him about.. Eastern nature lovers are 
usually familiar with this bird, but he had never been heard 
here before, nor has he since. Yet, as he has once been out | 
to see this region, like other tourists, he will, probably, come 
back to stay. 
The nests of the vireos belong to the hanging group, 
usually being swung like a tiny round basket between the ~ 
branches of a forked limb. A nest in an orchard near Seattle 
was watched by an audience of five when a male Western 
Warbling Vireo changed places with his mate. As he settled 
upon the eggs his joy bubbled over, and he fearlessly sang 
his gurgling melody, for he sings anywhere jes chooses dur- 
ing the courting and nesting seasons. 
- The Cassin Vireo, like the Anthony, is a bird of the 
_ treetops, although he is not afraid of a crowd. He felt him-— 
self safe enough to sing in the firs and cedars during a 
world fair held on the University of Washington grounds. 
How few in that crowd listened to him as he called to his © 
mate above their heads! 
Among the smallest of the birds that elean chai food 
on the trees from the sunny slopes of California to the shores | 
of Puget Sound are four varieties of bush-tits, all belonging © 
to the same family as the chickadees and the nuthatches. 
The type form, Bush-tit,(now confined by Ridgway south © 
of the Columbia River through the region where the Sacra- 
~ mento Bush-tit also lives in the southern valley) was des-— 
cribed by Townsend as early as 1837, but the Puget Sound 
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