Identifier: cu31924022517340 (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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e of the month. The Bird and its Haunts.—These birds are very plentiful duringthe breeding season in the mountains of southern Arizona. They may befound from an altitude of 4,000 to 9,000 feet, but are more common inthe oak belt, from 4,000 to 7,000 feet altitude, where a great many ofthem breed. Nevertheless, comparatively few nests are found. I be-lieve the reason for this is, because, unlike other Warblers, these birdsdo not have a note of alarm nor do they show any signs of breeding.The birds are constantly on the jump, apparently catching insects.Even when flushed from the nest they will hop about in their usualunconcerned manner. (Howard^.) Of this Warbler in California Walter Fisher writes: The Black-throated Gray goes about its aiifairs in a quiet business-like mannersuggesting the Lutescent Warbler, and differs, therefore, in tempera-ment from both the Calaveras and Audubon Warblers which arealways in evidence. It lives in chaparral such as deer brush, wild lilac Plate XIII
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1. Yet i,o\v-THROATED Warbler, Male. 4. Gracls VVAHiiLEK, Pemale. 2. IEi.LOw-niKOATED Warbler. Female. 5. Black-throated (hiAV W^hbler. Male. 3. Graces Warbler. Male. C. Black-throated Gray Wakbier, Female (ONE-HALJ- natural size.) BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER 153 of various species, scrub oak, and sometimes, particularly in the humidcoast districts, among evergreens. It is fond of the neighborhood ofclearings where it works constantly and carefully among low growth.Although it does not force itself upon ones attention it is a veryactive bird and during the day must cover considerable territory(Fisher, MS.) Bowles*, writing from Oregon, says that in habits the Black-throated Gray suggests both the Black-throated Green and PrairieWarblers. Like the former, it likes tall trees with a preference forscattered conifers having a bushy undergrowth. Like the Prairie itprefers high and dry places, though it does not object to a swamp ifthe ground beneath the nest is dry. Two pairs this writer w

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