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Title: Bird homes : the nests, eggs and breeding habits of the land birds breeding in the eastern United States; with hints on the rearing and photographing of young birds
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Dugmore, Arthur Radclyffe, 1870-1955
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: York University - University of Toronto Libraries

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light lemon yellow; belly grayishwhite; distinct white bars on wings. Length—5.95. Breeding Range—Throughout the Eastern States. The nest resembles a good example of the red-eyed vireos,from five to forty feet from the ground. Eggs white with a tinge of pink; rather more thickly spottedthan those of the red-eyed vireo. Size—.83 x .61. The bright yellow breast serves to distinguish this bird fromother members of the vireo family; the breeding habits are notvery different from those of the red-eyed vireo, except thatnesting begins rather later. 629. Blue-headed, or Solitary Vireo: Vireo solitarius (Wils.) Adult—Upper parts greenish; head blue gray, with conspicuouswhite ring round the eye, and white between eye and bill;under parts whitish, tinged on the sides with greenishyellow; wings have two white bars. Length—=i.6i. Breeding Range—Chiefly in the northern part of the United States,and in the higher parts of the Alleghanies further south;rarely in northern New Jersey. 118
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Semi-Pensile, Pensile or Hanging Nests The nest is of the regular vireo type. The eggs, 3 to 4 innumber, are white with few dark spots, sometimes in a wreath-like cluster around the larger end. Size—.81 x .62. These birds are inhabitants of the woods, though they some-times breed in apple trees near houses. A pair bred in an appletree that almost touched a house, and the young could be seenfrom my window, as they left the nest; this was in SouthOrange, New Jersey. 629c. Mountain Solitary Vireo: V. s. alticola Brewst. Resembles the preceding, but is larger, and more gray thangreen on the back. Breeding Range—Higher portions of the Alleghanies in North andSouth Carolina. The nest is much like that of other vireos, but larger, andhaving in addition to the usual materials pieces of decayed woodfastened on the outside with spiders or caterpillars webs. 3 to4 eggs are laid ; they are white, with fine spots and dots ofbrown. Size—.80 x. 58. 631. Wliite-eyed Vireo: Vireo noveboracensis

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