. Birds & nature. Birds; Natural history. THF KRNrUCKV l'rr\\"l\l\X sixty ami sevcniy viro described by Davie in his ^* Nests and iCs^ii^^ r mag- uifux-ui, but Warblers alone ate prettv. The Warblers are mii^ratoi\- birds, the majoritv o( them passing rapidly across the United States in spring on the wav to their northern nesting grc>unds, and in atitnmn to their wiutet residence within the tropics. When tlie apple trees bkx>ni they revel among the flowers, vicing in activity and innnbei-s with tl)e bees; "now probing the Recesses of a bUvssoni for an i
. Birds & nature. Birds; Natural history. THF KRNrUCKV l'rr\\"l\l\X sixty ami sevcniy viro described by Davie in his ^* Nests and iCs^ii^^ r mag- uifux-ui, but Warblers alone ate prettv. The Warblers are mii^ratoi\- birds, the majoritv o( them passing rapidly across the United States in spring on the wav to their northern nesting grc>unds, and in atitnmn to their wiutet residence within the tropics. When tlie apple trees bkx>ni they revel among the flowers, vicing in activity and innnbei-s with tl)e bees; "now probing the Recesses of a bUvssoni for an insect, then darting to another, where, jx^ised daintily upon a slender twig, or suspendcil tVom it. thev explore hastily but tor another morsel. l\very movement is the personification of nervous activity, as if the time for their journey was short; as, indeed, appears to be the case, for two or three ilays at mast suf- fice some species in a single locality.'' We recently saw a letter fnnn a gentleman living .u (.^ene\.i, in which he referred with t».> liiKi>s, because it luul him to identify a binl which he had ot'ten seen in the apple trees among the , particularly the piesent with which he was tutac- quainted bv name. It was the (.'irehard Oriole, and he was glad to have a directorv of nature which would enable him to add to his knowledge ami correct errors of The idea is a capitol one,aud the beautitul \- , unknown to mau\ whi^ see it often, may be recogni*ted in the same wa\" by residents of .southern Indiana and Illinois, , svMuc localities in iMiio, particularly in the southwestern portion, in parts oi' \c\\ York and New Jersey, in the l>islrict of Columbia, and in North Carolina, ll has not heretofore been possible, even with the best paitited specimens of birds in the hatul, to satisfactorily ideutifv the prettv , but with HiKixs as a companion, which n
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