. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . -chee, tse-chee,which is certainly more suggestive of a nimble sneeze than a warble and hasprompted Mr. Bradford Torrey to say in his very expressive way, These warb-lers are poor hands at warbHng, but they are musical to the eye. From whichit naturally follows that warbler week is the spring season of coloratura opera. If not good singers, the warblers are great travelers. Our bay-breast spendsthe winter in Central America, but when the breeding season calls,
. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . -chee, tse-chee,which is certainly more suggestive of a nimble sneeze than a warble and hasprompted Mr. Bradford Torrey to say in his very expressive way, These warb-lers are poor hands at warbHng, but they are musical to the eye. From whichit naturally follows that warbler week is the spring season of coloratura opera. If not good singers, the warblers are great travelers. Our bay-breast spendsthe winter in Central America, but when the breeding season calls, it leaves thewarmth of the tropics and picks its way northward going as far as Hudsons Bayand Labrador. On this long journey they feed as they go and do good service to the treesand shrubs by ridding them of great numbers of injurious insects, and beinglittle birds, hunting for little insects, no part of tree or bush is too small tbescape their keen eyes and sharp bills. Their habits most nearly resemble those of the Chestnut-sided warbler. It is rather hard to identify, because its song so closely resembled the Black-polls. 340. 154 BAY-BREASTED WARBLER. (Dendroica castanea). Life-size. I The Road Runner {Geococcyx caUfomianus) Length, 20 to 24 inches, mostly tail. Quite unlike any other North Americanbird in form and color. Range: From the upper Sacramento Valley south through California andthe peninsula and from Colorado, Kansas, middle and western Texas, Arizonaand New Mexico southward; resident. The name road runner when appHed to a cuckoo may seem an anomalyto those who may know only our eastern cuckoos, but in truth the road runner isanomalous in many ways. It is distinguished by curiously marked plumage, thepossession of a long bill and a disproportionally long tail. As a result of itsstrange appearance, and stranger antics, the road runner is made the hero ofmany a fable. Among other wonders it is claimed that it can outrun the swiftesthorse and kill the biggest rattle
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