. The birds of eastern North America : with original descriptions of all the species which occur east of the Mississippi River, between the Arctic circle and the Gulf of Mexico, with full notes upon their habits, etc. , . , when all the apple orchards of New England are s)iow\with blossoms, the same birds appear and linger a time, then depart for the North, arri\-ing in the British Provinces and Labrador when nature has assumed her most festivegarb. Thus, in all their long passage from the South to their summer home, they revel BLACK-POLLED WARBLER. OS-,. Fig. 89. Head of youngfemale Black-pij
. The birds of eastern North America : with original descriptions of all the species which occur east of the Mississippi River, between the Arctic circle and the Gulf of Mexico, with full notes upon their habits, etc. , . , when all the apple orchards of New England are s)iow\with blossoms, the same birds appear and linger a time, then depart for the North, arri\-ing in the British Provinces and Labrador when nature has assumed her most festivegarb. Thus, in all their long passage from the South to their summer home, they revel BLACK-POLLED WARBLER. OS-,. Fig. 89. Head of youngfemale Black-pijlled Warblerin autumn, showing inclinationto assume a superciliary stripe. ou their happy way, anu,l Is a:u] the spicy iVagrancu of a Black-polled Warblers breed quite i,i the nejubhorliood of Ea.^tport Maine, and I found thcni abundant on the MigdalinIslands during the breeding season. The nest is nsuallvplaced on the limb of a fir, close to the trunk. Tlie egusare laid during the latter part of June, and by the firstof August the young are fully tledged ; a little later theold birds moult; then, as tiie season becomes cooler, com-mence the soutliern Hight. It isdimcult to believe the little green , whicheometiooping in by , are tlie same whicli in the bright springtime ; then t!ie ]mw lisping songs oft!ie males were heard; now they tiit silentlyiuid hurriedly through the changing foliage which tcioshortly precedes the season of saili
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