Identifier: birdlore21nati (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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RED-EYED VIRKo oN M>rPhotograph by Dr. Frank. M. Chapman No wonder, therefore, the young bird-student soon makes its acquaintance.Even as I write these lines, on a hot afternoon late in June, I can hear thenotes of a Vireo coming in through the open window. The bird is out thereamong the trees of a vacant lot, where the small boys have dug their trenchesand are sending forth their volleys of vocal musketry. The savage shouts of (266)
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KED-EYED VIREO Order—Passeres Family ViKt^Niu.t Genus--ViREOSYLvA Species—Olivacba National Association of Audubon Societies The Red-eyed Vireo 267 youth and the song of the Vireo have been going on together now for someweeks, and the authors of all the din apparently have never noticed each other. The past four years a pair of Vireos has spent the summer in the trees ofthis vacant lot. One June day I found the nest near the outer end of a whitebirch limb. The nest could easily be reached by a grown person standing onthe ground beneath. It was a beautiful cradle, hung in the fork of two twigs,and was made mainly of strips of bark, dried grasses, and plant fiber. A pieceof white string and some scraps of paper decorated the outer sides. It containedfour white eggs, lightly spotted around the larger end. From these thereemerged in time four little birds that for many days engrossed their mothersattention. After they had flown away I took the nest and placed it on the wallof my study

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