. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 140 BIRDS OF AMERICA manner. There is nothing of the excitable dis- position that is called " ; When he is in a mood to sing, back he goes to the top of a cypress and pours forth his song, often for some minutes, standing quietly on one limb of the tree. The Sycamore Warbler of the south-central States seems to give his preference to the syca- more trees, and is well named the Sycamore Yellow-throat. Neither is he a very common bird, but his song and beauty are the character- istics that attract people to him. GRACE'S WARBLER
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 140 BIRDS OF AMERICA manner. There is nothing of the excitable dis- position that is called " ; When he is in a mood to sing, back he goes to the top of a cypress and pours forth his song, often for some minutes, standing quietly on one limb of the tree. The Sycamore Warbler of the south-central States seems to give his preference to the syca- more trees, and is well named the Sycamore Yellow-throat. Neither is he a very common bird, but his song and beauty are the character- istics that attract people to him. GRACE'S WARBLER Dendroica graci^ Ha in! A (1. V. Xumber .,Im General Description.— Length. 5 inches. Upper parts, gray streaked with black: under parts, yellow and white. Bill, shorter than head, slender, tapering. Drawing by R. I. Brasher GRACE'S WARBLER (J nat. size) A pretty bird with graceful r gradually to the tip ; wings, iong and pointed ; tail, even or nearly even. Color.— Adult ^le in Spring and Summer; .Ibovc, slatc-yray. the cron'ii and back, streaked ivith hlnck (sides of crown, sometimes uniformly black) ; wings and tail, dusky with slate-gray edgings, the middle wing-coverts broadly, the greater coverts more narrow'ly, tipped with white, forming two distinct wing- lands; two outermost tail-feathers with inner webs white at the end (the white occupying more than the end half on outermost feather, which also has the outer web largely white), the third feather also usually with an elongated white patch at the end or near the end; over the eye a stripe of yellow passing into white beyond eye; a broad dusky loral streak and a narrow dusky streak at corner of mouth; sides of head and sides of neck, plain slate-gray; spot bclozv eye. cheek, chin, throat, and cliest. lenion-yellozn; remaining under parts, white, with sides of chest and breast, sides, and flanks, streaked with black; bill, black; iris, brown; legs and feet, dusky-brown. Adult Female: Similar to the adu
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