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Title: News from the birds
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Keyser, Leander Sylvester, 1856-
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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really won-derful mesh of song. As a musician, however, he has a rival inthe red-eyed vireo, wrhose song is shorter, it istrue, but louder and more vigorous. Thisbird is larger than our little friend just de-scribed, and seems to like the company of warblers in the autumn. Ao;ain and as;ain I © © have, found a single red-eye flitting about inthe woods with an army of warblers, as ifhe said : I like these little tilters better thanmy own kin; I can agree with them better.Sometimes ones own relatives are the hardest to o;et along; with. © © My jolly, nervous little friend, the white-eyed vireo, does not take to the woods as dohis relatives, but selects low thickets where hecan hide himself when he wants to, sing hisrolling, earnest tunes, and build his nest insome low sapling or bush. If you go too nearthe home of these birds in the breeding season,you will get the worst scolding you have everheard, as they dash about the bushes withoutone bit of fear of being seen themselves, their
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The white-eyed vireo. 126 NEWS FROM THE BIRDS. white eyes showing like tiny marbles in thesides of their heads. Many bird students have gone quite intoraptures over the song of the white-eye. Mr.Burroughs thinks he mimics the songs of otherbirds, and that in this respect only the mock-ing bird goes ahead of him. Another writersays that in July and August this little birdsometimes sings with so much power andvariety that you think at first there must bethree or four songsters in the bushes, each try-ing to distance the other. He also declaresthat the white-eye imitates the notes of otherbirds, among them those of the robin, wren,catbird, flicker, goldfinch, and song sparrow. In my neighborhood, and, indeed, in theentire State of Ohio, except, perhaps, in theextreme northern part, the blue-headed or soli-tary vireo is only a migrant; so I have hadno chance to study its breeding habits. It hasseveral times favored me with a song in thespring, and even in the autumn it occasionallybreaks

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