. Birds of other lands, reptiles, fishes, jointed animals and lower forms;. Zoology; Birds; Reptiles; Fishes. Photo by Scholastic Photo. Co. YOUNG THRUSH T/iii p/wlograph s/iO'lL's lliE mud-imai nest the spring migrants, remaining to nest, and leaving again in the autumn. Some, as the Black-cap, White throat, Chu-t--- CHAFi--, Garden-, Willow-, and Wood- WARBLFJis, frequent woods, hedgerows, and gardens; whilst others, as the Sedge- and Reed-warblers, are found only near water affording sufficient shelter in the shape of reed-bank's or osier-planta- tions. The Black-cap and Garden-warb- ler ra
. Birds of other lands, reptiles, fishes, jointed animals and lower forms;. Zoology; Birds; Reptiles; Fishes. Photo by Scholastic Photo. Co. YOUNG THRUSH T/iii p/wlograph s/iO'lL's lliE mud-imai nest the spring migrants, remaining to nest, and leaving again in the autumn. Some, as the Black-cap, White throat, Chu-t--- CHAFi--, Garden-, Willow-, and Wood- WARBLFJis, frequent woods, hedgerows, and gardens; whilst others, as the Sedge- and Reed-warblers, are found only near water affording sufficient shelter in the shape of reed-bank's or osier-planta- tions. The Black-cap and Garden-warb- ler rank as songsters of no mean talent, being held second only to the nightingale. As if by common consent, the two former never clash, so that where black-caps are common there are few garden-warblers, and vice vcrsd. Most of these birds build a typical cup-shaped nest of dried grasses, lined with finer materials, and placed near the ground; but that of the Reed-\\ ardler is a most beautiful structure, the dried grass of which it is made being woven around some three or four reed-stems, mak'ing it seem as if the latter had, in growing up, pierced the sides of th " nest and are then captured and sold in large numbers for food in the Russian mar]<ets, and occasionally are sent over to London. Passing over a small group of comparatively uninteresting American birds known as " Green- lets," we come to the WarblKRS, a group which constitutes one of the largest families of birds of the Old World. The species included in this family vary greatly in their characters, so that it is by no means easy to give diagnostic char- acters, whereby they may be readily distinguished from the Fly-catchers on the one hand or the Thrushes on the other. The Thrushes, however, as a group, may be distinguished from the Warblers by the circumstance that in the former the young have a distinctive spotted plumage, dift'ering from that of the adults, while the )'oung of the Warblers are not so
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