. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . e opportunities for observing birdsnow rare or extinct, we may comfortably reflect upon the fact that that mostfascinating and distinctively American family, the Mniotiltidae, is yearly mar-shalled before our eyes in a way that was denied the fathers. The chief reasonfor this is one which we deplore otherwise, viz., the continued denudation of theforests. It is probably safe to say that in Wilsons day, that is, during the openingdecade of the last century, eigh
. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . e opportunities for observing birdsnow rare or extinct, we may comfortably reflect upon the fact that that mostfascinating and distinctively American family, the Mniotiltidae, is yearly mar-shalled before our eyes in a way that was denied the fathers. The chief reasonfor this is one which we deplore otherwise, viz., the continued denudation of theforests. It is probably safe to say that in Wilsons day, that is, during the openingdecade of the last century, eighty-five per cent of the area of our state was coveredwith timber. In such a forest even of the great Warbler army, whole regimentsmight pass year by year unnoticed, and many species be held rare which werereally abundant. But as early as 1885 the forest acreage was estimated at onlyseventeen per cent of the whole. These are the latest statistics available, butthe percentage, without doubt, has steadily decreased since then. In this respect,■■^n. we are favored; for if tlie birds would forage at all, they must needs avail 946. 43« BLACK THROATED GREEN 1(l)endroica themselves of our restricted food-lots and swarm through our fenced \e are unmasking hidden beauties, and compelling relunctant fays to showthemselves. The Pilack-throated Green Warbler, as an indivi<lual, is little troubled overour ingenious compulsion, for it is not at all unwilling to show itself, and hasnever learned a wholesome fear of mans presence. It is one of the commonestwarblers both in spring and fall, and seems in no hurry to get on, but there isno recent evidence that it ever fails to make the passage of Lake Eric. Confinedfor the most part to the tops of trees, it not infrequently ventures down toinspect you, hopping daintily from branch to branch, and leaning forward to peerat you inquiringly as the distance decreases. The song is an odd little affair of lispi
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