. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 218 THE BLVE-THROATED WARBLER. While hopping and feeding about the ground, it is wonderful to see what large worms and insects the little bird will devour. Should the worm be too large for him to swallow- entire, as indeed is mostly the case, he tosses it about with his beak, bangs it against the ground, flings it over his head, jumps on it, and when he has thus mashed it into a pulp, pulls it to bits, and devours it piecemeal. Tlie color of the male Eobin is bright oliVe-brown on the ba
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 218 THE BLVE-THROATED WARBLER. While hopping and feeding about the ground, it is wonderful to see what large worms and insects the little bird will devour. Should the worm be too large for him to swallow- entire, as indeed is mostly the case, he tosses it about with his beak, bangs it against the ground, flings it over his head, jumps on it, and when he has thus mashed it into a pulp, pulls it to bits, and devours it piecemeal. Tlie color of the male Eobin is bright oliVe-brown on the back, orange-red on the throat, chin, breast, forehead, and round the eye. A strii)e of blue-gray runs round the red, and the abdomen and lower part of the breast are white. The bill and eyes |ire black. The female is colored after the same manner, but the tints are not so vivid as in her mate. The total length of the bird is nearly six inches, and its weight about half an ounce. The Bltje-tiiroatkd Warbler is very common in the southern parts of Europe, but is extremely rare in the north. \\ \\iiUkk^^0^. BLUE-THKOATED WARBLER.—C^a«e(r«;o swdco; and CkTAAOVE. —Calliope katyitschatkensis. It is a sweet songster, the notes having some resemblance to those of the whinchat, l)ut being more powerful. It prefers to haunt low-lying, marshy grounds, and places its nest among tufts of the rank herbage that generally grows in such localities. The nest is most carefully hidden, and cannot readily be discovered. The materials of which it is composed are dried grass and mosses, and it is lined -nith grass of a finer character. The eggs are greenish-blue, something like those of the redstart. The bii'd has a curious habit of rising into the air wliile singing, spreading its tail widely, and sailing with quivering wings and spread tail to a spot at some distance from that at wMch it rose. It begins its song early in the morning, and does not cease until late in the evening, being in tliis
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