Identifier: cu31924022517365 (find matches)
Title: The warblers of North America
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927
Subjects: Wood warblers Birds
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & Company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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habit of building a second and, when thenecessity arises, a third story to its nest to cover the unwelcome egg ofthe Cowbird. Eggs.—4 or 5, usually 4, in a large series of sets, one contain-ing 6 eggs occurs, but two-thirds have four eggs each. Ground colorranges from grayish and greenish white to a rich green shade, overthis are markings of umber brown, blackish, lilac-gray, and purplish-brown in all varieties of spots, splashes, and blotches, always tendingto wreathe around the large end, but many are heavily marked allover. Size; average, .68X.50; extremes, .75X.52, .60x48, .73X.53,.62x47. (Figs. 39-41.) Nesting Dates.—Burning Springs, W. Va., May 14 (C. W. C.);Waynesburg, Pa., May 14-June 10 (Jacobs) ; New York City, May20-July 4 (building) (F. M. C.); New Haven, Conn., May 20-June30 (Bishop); Cambridge,Mass., full sets, first laying, May 23-30(Brewster); Lancaster, N. H., June 7 (Spaulding) ; Bangor, Me.,May 29-June 30 (Knight); Listowel, Ont, June i-June 22 (Kells); Plate X
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1. Myrtle Warbler, Adult Male. 2. Myrtle Warbler, Adult Female. 3. Myrtle Warbler, Young. 4. Audubons Warbler, Adult Male.5- Audubons Warbler, Adult Female.6 Audubons Warbler. Young. (One-half natural size. J SONORA YELLOW WARBLER 119 Oberlin, O., May i-June 1 (Jones); Jasper Co., la., May 16(C. W. C.); Boulder, Colo., June 5 (C. W. C.); Denver, Colo., JuneC (Dille); San Jose, Calif., April 5 (C. W. C.) ; Tacoma, Wash., May24-June 17 (Bowles) ; Ann Arbor, Mich., May 5, Ypsilanti, Mich.,June 23 (Wood). Biographical References (1) C. J. Morrison, Yellow Warbler vs. Cowbird. Orn. and 061., IX,1884, 124. (2) J. P. N. (orris), Eggs of the Western Yellow (=Yellow)Warbler, Orn. and 061., XII, 1887, 185. (3) A. B. Dunning, Yellow Warbler(in E. Mass.), Oologist, IX, 1892, 35. (4) N. F. Posson, Incessancy of theYellow Warblers Song, Ibid., IX, 1892, 65. (s) Morris Gibbs, The Blossom-Eater, Nidologist, II, 1894, 48. Sonora Yellow Warbler DENDROICA .ESTIVA SONORANA Brewst. Subspeci&c Characte

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