Identifier: birdsofontarioin00nash_1 (find matches)
Title: The birds of Ontario in relation to agriculture
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Nash, Charles W. (Charles William), 1848-1926 Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Toronto : Ontario Dept. of Agriculture Printed by L.K. Cameron, Printer to the King
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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iana Water Thrush, the Prairie Warbler, Kirtland\>Warbler, and the Yellow-breasted Chat. Probably when they dooccur, they remain and breed here. The Cape May, Orange-crowned,Tennessee, Cerulean, and Connecticut are regular but uncommon vic-tors. Of these the Cerulean is known to breed in some localities insouthern Ontario, but it is not generally distributed. 53 The Parula, Black throated blue, Myrtle (Fig. 21), Magnolia,Blackburnian, Bay-breasted, Black poll, Palm and Wilsons Warblersall pass on to the north before nesting. Just how far they go is diffi-cult to say, but in all probability the majority of them at any rate willbe found breeding in the unsettled districts of Muskoka, Algoma, etc.,and some even south of that. The Black and white, Nashville, Yellow, Chestnut-sided, Pine,Redstart (Fig. 22), Black-throated green, Oven bird, Water Thrush,Mourning, Maryland, and Canadian Warblers, are generally distributedand breed with us in suitable localities and in varying numbers each
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RedstartSetophaga ruticilla(Fig. 22.) season, the most familiar of them all being the Yellow Warbler, whichhabitually raises its young in and about our orchards and shrubberies.All through the summer they are actively engaged in exterminatingthe hosts of our smaller insect enemies, and many thousands of broodsof caterpillars are destroyed by them before they have become largeenough to do mischief. Kinglets. These are, next to the Humming bird, the smallestbirds we have, their want of size, however, being amply compensatedfor by their constant activity in pursuit of their insect food, and thenumber of them that pass through the Province during their migra-tions. There are two species of them, the Ruby Crowned Kinglet andthe Golden Crowned Kinglet, the latter being much the more abun- 54 dant. The names given them are sufficiently descriptive of the colorof their crests to enable then to be easily identified when examined;in other respects they are almost indistinguishable. The Ruby Cro

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