Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds (1898) (14569102789)

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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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Its eggs are bluish white, thickly marked with cinnamonand olive-brown. The Black-throated Green Warbler nests in pine for-ests from southern New England northward, arriving„, , „ A , from the South about May 1 and re- BlacK-tliroateci Green Warbler, gaining until October. Its nest is Dendroica mrens. usually placed in pine trees; its eggsPlate lxl are ^fte, spotted and speckled with dark brown. The songs of many Warblers are possessed of so littlecharacter that the best description conveys no idea ofthem, but the quaint zee-zee, zee-ee, zee of the Black-throated Green, which Mr. Burroughs writes v —, will be readily recognized. The Myrtle or Yellow-rnmped Warbler nests fromnorthern New England northward, and in winter is theMyrtle Warbler, onlJ Warbler to remain in the North-Dendroica coronata. em States, being often found as farPlate lxl north as New York city, when its favorite food of bayberries can be procured. At thisseason there is little or no black on the breast and the

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Plate LXVII. Page 175. BROWN. THRASHER. Length, 1140 inches. Upper parts bright reddish brown ; under partswhite and black ; eyes yellow. EEDSTART. - 169 back is grayish brown, but this Warbler may always beknown by its four patches of yellow and its characteristiccall-note of tchip. The Redstart belongs to the group of fly-catching Warblers, and, as an indication of its manner of feeding, Redstart n^s ^^ *s mucn broader and flatter than SetopMga ruticiiia. is usual in this family. The Redstart is Plate lxii. not g0 patient and methodic a flycatcheras the birds to whom this name rightly belongs. Theysit quietly until some insect comes within reach, and thenwith unerring aim launch out at it, returning to theirperch to devour it at leisure. But the Redstart dartshere and there, falls and rises and spins about, catchingan insect at every turn and at the same time displayinghis bright colors to such advantage that he seems themost beautiful as he is the most animated bird of thewoods. As

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