Identifier: birdcraftfield00wrig (find matches)
Title: Birdcraft : a field book of two hundred song, game, and water birds
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934 Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927
Subjects: Birds -- United States
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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on : April to late September. Breeds: From Virginia and southern Kansas northward.Nest: Low down, either oh a stump or the ground, composed of bark, grass, leaves, hair. Very difficult to find.Eggs: 4-5, white, dotted thickly with red and brown.Bange: Eastern United States to the Plains, north to Fort Simpson, south, in winter, to Central America and the West Indies. The Black and White Warbler is one of the most familiarand sociable of the Warblers. At first you will doubtlessthink it a small Woodpecker, as it is seen principally scram-bling around tree trunks searching for the insect food uponwhich it, together with the entire family of Warblers, sub-sists. During the past four years this Warbler has not varied aweek in the dates of his first and last appearance in thegarden. He has come to a certain gnarled old apple tree,his favourite resort, twice on May 2, once May 1, andonce April 29, and has invariably been last seen, in thesame locality, between September 25 and October 2. 88
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SONG-BIRDS. TVarblers The Creeper, when at rest, is not at all graceful, but it ismost interesting to watch its zig-zag course from the treetrunk out to the angles of the crooked branches, picking upinsects which are invisible to us, with its slender, sharp bill.In watching the manoeuvres of all bark-feeding birds, youmust keep in mind that the eyes of birds are powerful mag-nifiers, and that to them objects appear twenty-five times aslarge as they do to us. Worm-eating Warbler: Hehnitherus vermivorus. Length: 6.50 inches. Male and Female: Head yellowish brown, black stripe on each side of crown, also back of eye. Above greenish olive. Under parts buffy. Bill and feet light.Song: Similar to that of Chipping Sparrow, — trrrr-rrr-rrr, — from which Mr. llidgway says that it is difficult sometimes for the most critical listener to distinguish it.Season : Rare summer resident in southern New England.Breeds: In all parts of its United States range, but casually in the northerly sections

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