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At last we had before us the rare and long-desired Philadelphia greenlet. As its song is little known, I here transcribe my notes about it, made at two different times, between which there appears to have been some discussion among us as to just how it should be characterized: "The song is very pretty, and is curiously compounded of the red-eye's and the solitary's, both as to phrase and quality.
"'Vireo' comes from the Latin word meaning 'green, and because all of this family have greenish backs one of their common names is 'Greenlet. Besides being very pretty to look at, this little red-eyed bird is a great worker and does whatever he undertakes in a most complete manner.
The white-eyed greenlet is a vocalist of such extraordinary versatility and power that one feels almost guilty in speaking of him under the title which stands at the head of this paper. How he would scold, out-carlyling Carlyle, if he knew what were going on!
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