. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. WARBLERS i6i the bird-student; for the Yellow-throat does much of his hunting and frolicking in the brush and thickets near enough the ground to make observation of his movements comparatively easy. Indeed, the bird manifests something like a dis- tinct friendliness for and interest in human be- ings, provided they keep at what he considers a safe distance. This, however, does not prevent him from spending much of his time in almost inaccessible marshes, and especially sucli as have heavy cat-tail growths, in which the bird seems veiy much at home.
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. WARBLERS i6i the bird-student; for the Yellow-throat does much of his hunting and frolicking in the brush and thickets near enough the ground to make observation of his movements comparatively easy. Indeed, the bird manifests something like a dis- tinct friendliness for and interest in human be- ings, provided they keep at what he considers a safe distance. This, however, does not prevent him from spending much of his time in almost inaccessible marshes, and especially sucli as have heavy cat-tail growths, in which the bird seems veiy much at home. In drier surround- ings he frequently alights on the ground, where he also places his deep cup-shai)ed nest, and hence his somewhat misleading popular name of "Ground \\'arbler," which would be fairly ac- curate if it were applied to the Oven-bird nr the Water-Thrushes. Like these birds, and the Yellow-breasted Chat, the Yellow-throat has a flight song, uttered as he flutters a few feet into the air from a tree-top; but it is little more than a confused and brief inarticulate jumble of notes. and hardly deserves to be called a song at all. The Yellow-throat is one of the birds which is frequently imposed upon by the Cowbird. and seems entirely to lack the discernment of the Yellow Warbler and the Chat in detecting, and their wit in defeating, the jiarasite's |)iiryiose. Indeed, the female 'S'ellow-throat not only incu- bates the Cowbird's egg, but solicitously feeds the vor;icious foundling, sometimes to the neglect of her own voung, who ni;iy in consequence be almost starved or smothered by the ugly inter- loper. George Gladden. Theri- are several regional varieties of the .Maryland Yellow-thro;it. north of the Mexican boundarv, ditTering but little from each other either in size or in coloration. The Florida, or ."southern, \'ello\\-lliroat ( iicollilypis frichas iijiitita ) is found in the s( United States, breeding from the .Swamp in X'i
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