. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . n Wisconsin andnorthern Illinois. In the pine woods near Houston, Texas, they winter- in great num-bers. During very cold weather they visit, in company of Myrtle Birds and PalmWarblers, the rose-embowered city gardens, where they hunt for food in the pittos-porum, loquat and tea olive bushes, and among the magnolias and live oaks. Theyeven visit the rubbish piles of the door yards to lo
. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . n Wisconsin andnorthern Illinois. In the pine woods near Houston, Texas, they winter- in great num-bers. During very cold weather they visit, in company of Myrtle Birds and PalmWarblers, the rose-embowered city gardens, where they hunt for food in the pittos-porum, loquat and tea olive bushes, and among the magnolias and live oaks. Theyeven visit the rubbish piles of the door yards to look for food and search the comersof the windows for hidden insecSs.—The Pine Warbler is a robust and plain bird, fora member of the Warbler family, with little of the delicacy and ornament for which mostof its relatives are so justly famed. Their habits do not difier very much from those of other Wood Warblers. Duringwinter they search the tops of tall trees as well as the low shrubbery, but in springand summer they look for food among the higher Ijranches of coniferous trees, rarely 1 Pyxidanthera harbulaia. 2 Miichella ropers, a Oaultheria procumbent, i IMonlas butlaUx. » Orontium aqaaticum. DOMINICA Baird 2. DENDROICA DIS C 0LOR Baivd. 3. DENDROICA PALMARUM Bah-d. 4. SYLVANIA PUSILLA DENDROICA CORONATA Gray. 6. DENDROICA Baii-d. 7. GEOTHLYPIS PHILADELPHIA Baird. 8. SYLVANIA CANADENSIS Ridow. GELBKEHLIGER SANGER PRAIRIESANGER PALMENSANGER ZWERGSAN6ER KRONSANGER BLAUSANGER TRAUERSANGER OiJRTELSANGER /■^ fia/,pf. Yellow-throated 0 u r n i n^ Wa r b I e r .Canadian Warbler. PALM WARBLER. 233 catching flying insedls. At the time of their migration they may be found in all kindsof mixed woods, but their haunts in spring and summer are always the tall pines, whereit is often difficult to discover their whereabouts—the more so as their song is mis-leadi
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