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Vireos The Yellow-throated Vireo is of a stout, vigorous build, and has all the brillianey of colouring of the Chat. Though in northern New England it is counted rare, it is quite abundant in southern Connecticut, New York, and Penn-sylvania. Its somewhat melancholy song is varied by cheerful outbursts; and Mr. Bicknell says that it is the only Vireo that he has noticed singing while on the wing.

All authorities agree as to the great beauty of the nest of this species, even though they differ as to its exact location. It is considered to be wholly a woodland bird, loving tall trees and running water, haunting the same places as the Solitary Vireo. Dr. Warren says that during the migrations he he seen the Yellow throat in orchards and in the trees along sidewalks and lawns, but that in Pennsylvania it breeds in the woods, nesting twenty-five to thirty or forty feet from the ground.

On the other hand, Mr. Minot describes the nest as, - "altogether one of the prettiest nests to be found. It is placed in the fork of a horizontal branch, from three to fifteen feet above the ground, as often in the orchard as in the wood; though I have found it in pines."