SONG-BIRDS.
Warblers
- yellowish white. Wings and tail brownish, white wing bars. Bill and feet dark.
- Female:
- Chin yellowish, throat dusky, below pale whitish. In autumn plumage the male resembles the female.
- Song:
- Cheerful interrogative, "Will you co-ome, will you co-ome, will you?"
- Season:
- A summer resident, also abundant in the migrations. Comes in April, retires to woods to breed in May, emerges in September.
- Breeds:
- From New England, New York, and the higher parts of Pennsylvania northward.
- Nest:
- At the forking of high branches; made of twigs, bark, grasses, and lined with hair, roots, down, etc.
- Eggs:
- 4-5, white, sprinkled and veiled with brown-purple.
- Range:
- Eastern North America to the Plains, north to Hudson's Bay Territory; in winter, south to Cuba and Panama. Accidental in Greenland and Europe.
You will have but little trouble in recognizing this brilliant and talkative little Warbler, which comes to us both as a summer resident and as a migrant. In late April I am always sure to see its green and gold feathers among the hemlocks on the east side of the garden, while it continually utters its anxious and persuasive notes, to which I eagerly respond. It repeats a little phrase that separates it from the indistinct songs of so many of its tribe: "Will you co-ome, will you co-ome, will you?" it says, giving a particularly emphatic pause on the last two syllables.
It has never nested in the garden, and only comes to it before the breeding and after the moulting season.
Pine Warbler: Dendroica vigorsii.
Chimney Swallow.
- Length:
- 5.50-6 inches.
- Male:
- Above bright yellowish olive, clear yellow below, dark streaks on sides. Yellow eye line; white bars on wings. White blotches on two outer tail feathers.
- Female:
- Dull throughout, dirty white instead of yellow breast.
- Song:
- A delicately trilled whistle. (Minot.)
- Season:
- A locally common summer resident, May to October and November. Possibly a resident. Some remain in the Middle States all winter.
- Breeds:
- All through its range, beginning in the Carolinas in March.
- Nest and Eggs:
- No special marks of identification.
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