. Bird-land echoes; . Black-and-WHiite Tree-creeping Warbler. seen them here in advance of the red-polled warblers,and they linger habitually until late in much more depends upon the food-supplythan upon the temperature, for I have seen one ofthese birds that was evidently quite happy after anApril snow-storm that whitened the ground and gavea decided wintry aspect to the woods, in spite of theblossoms and bursting leaf-buds. A very different bird is the yellow-rumped Yellow-rumped Warbler. Waiting for Warblers. 63 In it we have nearly, if not quite, the typical fo
. Bird-land echoes; . Black-and-WHiite Tree-creeping Warbler. seen them here in advance of the red-polled warblers,and they linger habitually until late in much more depends upon the food-supplythan upon the temperature, for I have seen one ofthese birds that was evidently quite happy after anApril snow-storm that whitened the ground and gavea decided wintry aspect to the woods, in spite of theblossoms and bursting leaf-buds. A very different bird is the yellow-rumped Yellow-rumped Warbler. Waiting for Warblers. 63 In it we have nearly, if not quite, the typical formof this group of birds, and a very merry fellow andexcellent company it proves to be. I always regretto see the last of them pass by, and wonder whythey will not rest in a region that they find suffi-cient unto their needs for nine months of the warblers are in place wherever youfind them, and are as much at ease in the depths ofthe forest as about our garden fences. I have oftenseen them on the shade-trees of city streets, butparticularly tame country is not their preference, andI have always observed them at their best amongthe willows along the river-shore. It is a favoritegathering-ground with them, and any estimate oftheir numbers is out of the question. Except in thecase of certain strictly gregarious species, like thered-winged blackbirds, I have never seen so manybirds of one kind together as of these lively littlewarblers among the willows on the bank of ther
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