Bird-life - a guide to the study of our common birds (1901) (14752135582)

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Title: Bird-life : a guide to the study of our common birds

Year: 1901 (1900s)

Authors: Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946

Subjects: Birds -- United States

Publisher: New York : D. Appleton

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thickly marked with cinnamonand olive-brown. The Black-throated Green Warbler nests in pine for-ests from southern New England northward, arriving ^, , ^ , from the South about May 1 and re- Black-throated . . .1/^1 t^^ j. • Green Warbler mammg until October. Its nest is Bendroica vircns. usually placcd in piuc trccs; its eggsPlate LXi. j^j,g white, 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-rumped Warbler nests from northern New England northward, and in winter is the Myrtle Warbler, ^^ly Warbler to remain in the North- Dendroica coroiiata. em States, bciug oftcu fouud as far Plate LXI. north as New York city, when its favorite food of bayberries can be procured. At this season there is little or no black on the breast and the

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Platb LXVIL Page 175. BKOWN THRASHEK.Length, 11-40 inches. Upper parts bright reddish brown; under partswhite and black; eyes yellow. REDSTART. 109 back is grayish brown, but this ^Varbler may always beknown by its four patches of yellow and its characteristiccall-note of tchip. The Eedstart belongs to the group of fly-catching Warblers, and, as an indication of its manner of feeding, Eedstart ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ much broader and flatter than Sftojihiga rutieiiia. is usual in this family. The Eedstart is Plate LXli. jiQi; gQ 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. A

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