. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . and rapid. High up among the interlac-ing branches, hidden by the dense f(.)liage, he flits all tlie day long, gleaning THE CERULEAN WARBLER. 147 from the new leaves or sallying out into the open for some passing insect,singing in the intervals. The woods w hich he chouses must be damp under-neath, and the trees tall. Lndergrowth is no hindrance, but he seems to pre-fer as little of it as possible. His song seems to echo the purpose of his life. Beginning, as it were,down among t
. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . and rapid. High up among the interlac-ing branches, hidden by the dense f(.)liage, he flits all tlie day long, gleaning THE CERULEAN WARBLER. 147 from the new leaves or sallying out into the open for some passing insect,singing in the intervals. The woods w hich he chouses must be damp under-neath, and the trees tall. Lndergrowth is no hindrance, but he seems to pre-fer as little of it as possible. His song seems to echo the purpose of his life. Beginning, as it were,down among the lowly, it gradually but persistently rises, pointing tlie wayupward, disappearing while yet rising toward the heights. He lives wherehe can reach down and uplift by his presence and a sunny, joyous song is not pretentious, calling for applause, but rather the expressionof an earnest purpose. You will not hear it without close attention. It hasbeen rendered fsc, fsc, tsc, tsc, tr-e-c-c-c-c-e-c-c. with a strongly rising in-flection throughout. The liird sings while sitting, the head thrown hack and. Pholo by Lynds Jones. NEST .AXD ,^ in I i,i;t/i,[;.\x PLACED ON HORIZONT.\L TRANCir AT HKICHT OP FORTY Vl 148 THE CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER. the breast pulsing with the earnestness of expression. It is not easy to recog-nize amid tlie May medley of song. The nest is lashed upon a horizontal branch, or bound into a horizontalfork, well out from the tree, and always well up from the ground. Two nestswhich I have found in the famous South Woods were in a Ijeech and rockmaple tree respectively, one thirty, the other sixty feet from the ground. Thesenests resemble the nest of Redstart more than the nest of any other bird, bothin composition and construction, but they were stuccoed with cobwebs out-wardly. The material was mostly shreds of bark and horse-hair, with a littlemilkweed bark. The birds are very solicitous for their nest and young, utter-ing; the sharp r
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