. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . chanting picture: only a poet can do it appropriate justice. I can onlypoint to the large white blossoms, which exhale a wonderful fragrance, to the beautifulevergreen leathery leaves and to the stately form of the tree. All nature seems to beimbued with happiness and joy. Among the leaves and flowers of these trees of world-wide fame thousands and thousands of small birds are busily eng
. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . chanting picture: only a poet can do it appropriate justice. I can onlypoint to the large white blossoms, which exhale a wonderful fragrance, to the beautifulevergreen leathery leaves and to the stately form of the tree. All nature seems to beimbued with happiness and joy. Among the leaves and flowers of these trees of world-wide fame thousands and thousands of small birds are busily engaged in the search forinsects. Warblers, breeding in high northern latitudes, seem to congregate in themagnoHas. Interesting companies of these tired migrants, resting after the fatigues oftheir last nights journey, and preparing for that still before them, may be here observedamong green verdure and enchanting flowers. The blossoms attracSl great numbers ofinsedls for which these little birds eagerly search. In one large flowering magnolia Iobserved at one time—that is during a few hours—besides Blue-gray Gnatcatchers,Eed-eyed Vireos, and Hummingbirds, the following Warblers: Parula, Prothonotary,. WALDSAXGER IN DER WINTERHERBERGE WARBLERS INniEIRAVINTEROrARTERS. 1. Dendroica Blackburniae. 2. Dendroica maculosa. D. castanea. 5. D. pennsylvanica. virens. MAGNOLIA WARBLER. 209 Creeping, Goldeiirwinged, Black-throated Blue, Blackburnian, Chestnut-sided, Bay-breasted,Black-poll, Sycamore, Black-throated Green, Prairie, Mourning, Canadian, Hooded War-bler, and the American Redstart, but no species was more common and none moreelegant than the Magnolia Warbler. Wilson, who found the bird during the firstdecennial of this century among the magnolias on the lower Mississippi, called it Sylviamagnolia; indeed, a beautiful name for a dainty little bird, one of the most dressy ofa family noted for the richness and elegance of their attire. It usually searc
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