. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. DLACK-TIIROATED GREEN WARDLER. 377. ARBLER. , 17. fijf. II. Green I. No. 2! 17.) , Bides of the neck, h ; chin and throat I, wliich, nH well na imrked with white. )at blackish, tinged its tropical win- ! close of April the latter month but never more Lt this season, a â ved, for an hour for small cater- lite of nd unsuspicious tliout alarm, n a few feet of hile thus harm- Ie«Hly employed, ho Hometimos oncountori. the capricious of the larger birds, and the cowardly Clupping Spar
. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. DLACK-TIIROATED GREEN WARDLER. 377. ARBLER. , 17. fijf. II. Green I. No. 2! 17.) , Bides of the neck, h ; chin and throat I, wliich, nH well na imrked with white. )at blackish, tinged its tropical win- ! close of April the latter month but never more Lt this season, a â ved, for an hour for small cater- lite of nd unsuspicious tliout alarm, n a few feet of hile thus harm- Ie«Hly employed, ho Hometimos oncountori. the capricious of the larger birds, and the cowardly Clupping Sparrow, although itself a pigmy, HomotimeM insultingly chases little stranger froy, his silent retreat and necessary employment. Early in October they are .seen in small number., roving restlessly through the forest preparatory to their .leparture for the South. ' Though the greater part of the species probably pro- coed farther north to rear their young, a few .spend the summer m the and Northern States; but, from timorous and retiring habits, it is not easy to trace mer (1830). however, on the Hth of Juno. I was so for- tunate as to find a nest of this species in a perfectly soli- tary situation, on the Blue Hills of Milton. The female was now sitting, and about to hatch. The nest was in a low, thick, and stunted Virginia juniper. When I ap- proached near to the nest, the female stood motionless on Its edge, and peeped down in such a manner that I imagined her to be a young bird; .she then darted directly to the earth and ran. but when, deceived, I sou-rht her on the ground, she had very expertly disappeared ; and I now found the nest to contain 4 roundish eggs, white inclining to flesh-color, variegated, more particularly at the great end, with pale, purplish points of various sizes interspersed with other large spots of brown and black' ish. The nest was formed of circularly entwined fine strips of the inner bark of the juniper, and Uie white fibr
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