Still more strange is it, that when the vireo comes back she never seems to care that her own little ones are all lying dead on the ground below, but gives all the food that they would have eaten to the cowbird.
Why, as soon as the mothervireo goes out to look for caterpillars for food, it begins to wriggle underneath the other little birds, and soon shoves them out of the nest, one after another.
As it deliberately hunts for insects among the dry leaves on the ground or on the lower branches of shrubs, its slow motions are more like those of the vireo than of a warbler.
Except when nesting this vireo is unsuspecting and will permit a near approach.
The name vireo signifies a green finch and is from the Latin word meaning "to be green.
Mr. Chapman says: "I have always regretted that the manners of this vireo have been a bar to our better acquaintance, for he is a bird of marked character and with unusual vocal talents.
The White-eyed Vireo has an extensive range, extending over the eastern United States from the Atlantic Ocean to the great plains and from Mexico and Guatemala, where it winters, northward to the borders of British America.
Thoreau, speaking of this habit, says: "What a wonderful genius it is that leads the vireo to select the tough fiber of the inner bark instead of the more brittle grasses!
And then the wren andvireo Begin with song to overflow.
The nest of the White-eyed Vireois a beautiful structure.
Pertest of songsters," the white-eyed vireo makes whatever neighborhood it enters lively at once.
Mr. Bicknell says it is the onlyvireo that sings as it flies.
Before flying up to a twig to peck off the insects, the birds have a prettyvireo trick of cocking their heads on one side to investigate the quantity hidden underneath the leaves.
Indeed, this warbling vireoseems to be the connecting link between them.
We shall want another Hilary Vireoto preach that gospel here; and I don't doubt he is somewhere, though it would hardly seem possible.
Here Desire and Mr. Vireowould leave them,--their way lying down the hill.
Mr. Vireo has been watching and advising him so long!
I don't know but Mr. Vireo would say it was making a feast for friends and neighbors, if I pick out the ready-made.
For it was the very gospel of hope and gladness that Hilary Vireo preached there, and had preached and lived for twenty years, making lives to sing that would have moaned.
THE RED-EYED VIREO Almost everywhere in the Eastern United States and Canada, the red-eyed vireo is the most common member of his family.
Like the rest of his kin, the red-eyed vireo is quite tame.
Bradford Torrey used to visit a vireo that would drink water from a teaspoon which he held out to her while she sat brooding on her nest.
In those beautiful islands, where our familiar catbirds and cardinals also abound, {73} the white-eyed vireo is the most common bird to be seen.
Like the Blue-headed Vireo but with the yellowish wholly replaced by leaden gray.
A beautiful Vireo with a slaty blue crown and nape, greenish back, white wing bars and underparts, the flanks being washed with greenish yellow; a conspicuous mark is the white eye ring and loral spot.
This Vireo is nearly as abundant as the Red-eye but is not generally as well known, probably because it is usually higher in the trees and more concealed from view.
This Vireo has white eyes, as implied by its name, is yellowish green on the sides and with two prominent bars.
Their eggs do not differ from those of the Red-eyed Vireo except in size, averaging .
This Vireo is slightly smaller and grayer than the last; they are quite common in southern Arizona, nesting the same as Bell's at low elevations in bushes or small trees.
This peculiar Vireo has a black crown and sides of head, broken by a white eye ring and loral stripe; upper parts greenish, below white.
Like the Red-eyed Vireo but with a dusky streak on either side of the chin.
No writer on birds has grown enthusiastic on the subject, and Bradford Torrey alone among them does it scant justice, when he says this Vireo "is admirably named; there is no one of our birds that can more properly be said to warble.
The tree was quite tall, with few branches, an oak grown in a close grove, and I am sure there was no vireo nest on it; so that it was an absolutely gratuitous insult.
The wood-pewee was unheard, and even the vireoseemed to have finished his endless song and gone his way.
I looked carefully to see if the vireo had a nest on that tree, so strange a thing it seemed for a bird to do.
The Vireo makes a very deep nest, suspended by its upper edge, between the forks of a horizontal branch.
Mountain Solitary Vireo (alticola), head darker and back less greenish; Alleghanies from North Carolina to Georgia.
This strange and comparatively rare Vireo frequents brushwood on the prairies of Kansas, Indian Territory and central and western Texas.
A handsomeVireo found in localities such as are frequented by the Red-eyed species.
Similar to that of the Yellow-throated Vireo but longer and more varied.
The red-eyed vireo has almost as extensive a range, and at least in New England is possibly more numerous; but except among ornithologists it remains a stranger, even to country-bred people.
Acquaintance will probably make it as characteristic and unmistakable as any of our four other vireo songs.
For the benefit of the lay reader, I ought, perhaps, to have explained before this that the Philadelphia vireo is in coloration an exact copy of the warbling vireo.
A little afterward, a red-eyed vireo alighted on his other favorite perch, and he showed no resentment.
On the whole, then, the song of the Philadelphia vireo comes nearest to the red-eye's, differing from it mainly in tone and inflection rather than in form.
Vireo philadelphicus is in a peculiar case: it looks like one common bird, and sings like another.
Redeye the Vireo awoke and at once began to sing, as is his way, not even waiting to get a mouthful of breakfast.
It was very still and quiet there save for the cheerful voice of Redeye the Vireotelling over and over how happy he was.
Redeye the Vireo was pouring out his little song of gladness, quite as if everything was just as it should be.
It was very still in the Green Forest save for the song of happiness of Redeye the Vireo who, if he knew what was going on, made no sign.
Who, by a mere glance, could imagine the materials that the little bird called the vireo employs in building her peculiar nest?
Verily even a vireo or worm-eating warbler, who is supposed to know a green caterpillar when he sees one, might perch among these without a suspicion, except perhaps at the tickling of its feet by the rudely touched victim.
But one day I was amazed to see a redeyed vireo actually on the lower part of the hawk's nest.
It is lucky for suburban sleepers that the vireo doesn't sing at night.
One morning when I got to the oak it was all in a hubbub, and the vireo was scolding loudly at a blue jay.
Presently a vireo with disordered breast feathers flew down on a dead twig close to the ground and leaned over with a tired anxious look, and craning her neck, turned her head on one side, and bent her eyes on the ground scrutinizingly.
While the gnat flipped about distractedly, the vireo sat calmly beside her nest, an exquisite white basket hanging under the leaves in the sun, or walked carefully over the branches looking for food for the young.
Vireo solitarius alticola# Brewster, Mountain Vireo Four specimens out of a series of twenty-eight Blue-headed Vireos taken in Louisiana since 1938 are referable to this race.
He resembles somewhat the Warbling Vireo (Vireo gilvus), and the two birds are often confounded by careless observers.
Not a vireo was seen above Graymont, which has an altitude of nearly ten thousand feet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vireo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
