Identifier: birdsnatureinnat04unse (find matches)
Title: Birds and nature in natural colors.
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Chicago : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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out the West Indies. So far as appearance, motions, and habits go, the water-thrush is morethrush than warbler, and one who sees him for the first time walking sedatelyalong with teetering tail may well be excused for declining to class him with thewarbler family. He is partial to swamps and wet places, is a ground frequenter,and in no real sense aboreal. Though an inhabitant of the wilds and showingstrong preference for swampy ground, he not infrequently visits gardens even inpopulous towns, and seems to be quite at home there in the shade of the shrub-bery. A sharp and characteristic alarm note often calls the attention of thechance passerby, who would otherwise overlook the bird in its shady recesses. Few who are privileged to hear its notes will dissent from the opinion thatthe water-thrush is one of the foremost of the warbler choir and a real musician.The bird is a ground builder, placing its nest under the roots of an upturned tree,in banks, or in cavities of various sorts. 746
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664 WESTERN RED-TAILED HAWK.(Buteo borealis calurus).1 Life-size. COPYRIGHT 1900, BY A W. MUMFORD, CHICAGO Connecticut Warbler (oporomis agUis) Range: Breeds in Canadian Zone from ^Manitoba to central Minnesota andnorthern Michigan; winters in South America, probably in Colombia and Brazil. Discovered by Wilson in Connecticut early in the last century, the Con-necticut warbler remained almost unknown for many years until, September 7,1870, I found it numerous in the fresh pond swamps of Cambridge. The birdthus rediscovered rapidly came into the limelight, and there are few eastern ob-servers of the present day who are not tolerably familiar with the appearance andhabits of this warbler. In fall it is common throughout eastern United States inlow, swampy thickets. It habitually feeds on the ground, and is so silent and shyas easily to escape the notice even of one on the lookout for it, especially as itssingle chirp of alarm is infrequently uttered. In fact, the only way to be surethat

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