Identifier: birdlifeguid00chap (find matches)
Title: Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946
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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n, rambling recitative,which no one has described so well as Wilson Flagg, whocalls this bird the Preacher, and interprets its notes as You see it—you know it—do you hear me ?—do you be-lieve it ? The Red-eye evidently has an inquiring mind,for he never tires of asking these questions. He notonly ^ings all day, but seems unaffected by the heat ofsummer, and at midday is often the only bird to be heard.One would imagine that few birds had a more even tem-perament than this calm-voiced singer, but when annoyedhe utters a complaining whang—a sound which is a goodindication that something is wrong in the bird world. The Red-eye winters in the tropics, and reaches us inthe spring about May 1, remaining until October 15. A near relative of the Red-eyes is the WarblingYireo—a somewhat smaller bird, with a brown, in placeof red eye, and without the black margin above the whiteeye-line which can be so easily seen in the Red-eye. TheWarbling Yireo is the less common of the two, and is
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Plate LXV. Page 172. YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT. Length, 745 inches. Upper parts olive-green; breast yellow; bellywhite; lores black, bordered by white. VIREOS. . 165 more local, showing a marked fondness for rows of elms —a taste which makes it a dweller in towns and villages. Its soi2g bears no resemblance to that Warbling Vireo, of the Red.eye being a continuous, vireo gilvus. . . , flowing warble, with an alto under-tone, suggestive of the song of the Purple Finch. The Warbling Yireo arrives from its winter home inthe tropics about May 5, and remains until late in Sep-tember. Although the Yellow-throated Yireo is least like theBed-eye in color, it resembles it the most closely in choice Yellow-throated °f naimts and in song- Still>tne Yellow- Vireo, throats song is sung more deliberatelyVireo flavifrons. and with longer pauses between theparts, while in tone it is deeper andricher. To my mind he says : See me ; Im here ; whereare you ? repeating the question in varying forms.Rarel

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