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Title: Bird neighbors : an introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Blanchan, Neltje, 1865-1918
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York : Doubleday & McClure
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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mage of the male being less brilliant than whenwe saw it last, as if the fomily cares of the summer had provedtoo taxing. For nearly a month longer they hunt incessantly, withmuch flitting about the leaves and twigs at the ends of branchesin the shrubbery and evergreens, for the tiny insects that thewarblers must devour by the million during their all too brief visit. I8s BIRDS CONSPICUOUSLY YELLOWAND ORANGE Yellow-throated Vireo American Goldfinch Evening Grosbeak Blue-winged Warbler Canadian Warbler Hooded Warbler Kentucky Warbler Magnolia Warbler Mourning Warbler Nashville Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Wilsons Warbler or Blackcap Yellow Warbler or Summer Yellowbird Yellow Redpoll Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Maryland Yellowthroat Blackburnian Warbler Redstart Baltimore Oriole Look also among the Yellowish Olive Birds in the preceding group; and amongthe Brown Birds for the Meadowlark and Flicker. See also Parula Warbler (Slate) andYellow-bellied Woodpecker (Black and White).
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YELLOW-THROATED VIREO Life-size. BIRDS CONSPICUOUSLY YELLOW ANDORANGE Yellow-throated Vireo (I^ireo 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; linearound the eye and forehead. Yellow, shading into olive-green, on head, back, and shoulders. Underneath white.Tail dark brownish, edged with white. Wings a lightershade, with two white bands across, and some quills edgedwith white. Jia?ige~Hor\.\\ 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 groupof neat, active, stoutly built, and vigorous little birds of yellow,greenish, and white plumage; birds that love the trees, andwhose feathers reflect the coloring of the leaves they hide, hunt,and nest among. We have no birds, says Bradford Torrey,

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