. Bird lore . DOWN WITH THE DESTROYERS OF CROPSThe young Golden-winged Warbler in the shade is negotiating a large insect, with the assistance of its mother The Nashville Warbler seems to require the presence of sphagnum moss,and although not abundant in the real sphagnum bogs, it is always foimd inour deciduous woods where there are little runs and hillocks with occasionalpatches of sphagnum. They are more common on the tops of the hills but 152 Bird - Lore occur also in woodlands that are typically Transitional, if the proper conditionsare found. The nest is usually placed at the base of a b
. Bird lore . DOWN WITH THE DESTROYERS OF CROPSThe young Golden-winged Warbler in the shade is negotiating a large insect, with the assistance of its mother The Nashville Warbler seems to require the presence of sphagnum moss,and although not abundant in the real sphagnum bogs, it is always foimd inour deciduous woods where there are little runs and hillocks with occasionalpatches of sphagnum. They are more common on the tops of the hills but 152 Bird - Lore occur also in woodlands that are typically Transitional, if the proper conditionsare found. The nest is usually placed at the base of a bush or an alder growingfrom the side of one of these hillocks, usually in or near a clump of (Northern) Water-Thrush and the Mourning Warbler seem to beinfluenced more by extreme humidity than by temperature. The damp, low-land woods, where skunk cabbage and nettles thrive, attract the MourningWarbler and if, added to these, there are numerous pools of standing water. SUBSTITUTES IN BIRD-LAND In this nest of the Parula Warbler, leaf skeletons have been substituted for Usnea moss, and used quite as skilfully the Water-Thrush is satisfied to go no farther north. Fallen logs, moss, androyal ferns make it still more attractive for the Water-Thrush. Both thenest of the Mourning Warbler, built up from the ground in a skunk cabbage ora nettle, and that of the Water-Thrush, sunk in the moss at the foot of analder, are difficult to find. The Canadian Warbler is another species that seems to enjoy humidity,for although it nests on the relatively dry hilltops, it is more abundant The Warblers of Central New York 153 about the edges of sphagnum bogs, along cool trout-streams, and in the deepravines. Even as strange as the association of Louisiana Water-Thrushes with nor-thern Warblers in the ravines is that which occurs in the swampy woodlandsat the north end of Cayuga Lake. Here are the standing pools of water and theacres of skunk cabbage that attractlarge n
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