Identifier: birdlifeguidetos00chapman (find matches)
Title: Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds
Year: 1897 (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: Smithsonian Libraries
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ws, Flycatchers, and Yireoshave been mastered, there will l)e unsolved problemsamong the Warblers. Some rare species will be left tolook for—it may be a member of the band flitting aboutactively in the branches above us—and in the hope offinding it we eagerly examine bird after bird until ourenthusiasm yields to an aching neck. Accpiaintance with more familiar birds will doubtless arouse the enthusiasm necessary to a successful pursuit of ^, , ^ ,„^.^ AYarl)lers, but in the meanwhile I will Black and White . -, -, • i Warbler niention only those species that can be Mniotiita varia. most easily observcd. Among them isPhite LX. ^i^g ^\-AQk and White Warbler, whose habit of creeping or climbing over trunk and limb aidsin his identification. He is a summer resident, and aboutApril 20 we may expect to hear the thin, wiry see-see-see-see notes which form his song. A month later wemay find his nest, placed on the ground at the base ofa stump or stone and containing four or five white
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Plate LXI. MYRTLE WARBLER. Length, 5G5 inches. Winter plumage, crown-patch, rump, and sides ofbreast yellow ; back brown and black : under parts black and white. SummerXilumage, similar, but upper parts gray and black ; more black on underparts. BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER.Length, 510 inches. Upper parts yellowish green ; face brighter ; breastblack ; belly white. 227 228 WARBLERS. eggs speckled with reddish brown, chiefly at the largerend. The Yellow Warbler is also a summer resident, arriv-ing in the spring about April 30 and remaining, withthe Black-and-white Warbler, until late e ow ar er, ^^^ September, It has the general an- JJtiidrouu astiva. ^ _ o i pearance of being an entirely yellowbird, and is sometimes called Wild Canary, but it hasa nnich more slender bill than the Canary, and its breastis spotted with reddish brown. Most Warblers are wood-inhabiting birds, but the Yellow Warbler, unlike its rela-tives, prefers lawns, parks, and orchards to woodlands.Its nest, of fine g

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