. Handbook of birds of eastern North America : with keys to the species and descriptions of their plumages, nests and eggs, their distribution and migration ... Birds. 312 WOOD Fio. 110.—Yellow-breaated Chat. (Natural size.) This southern representative of the Maryland Yellow-throat is usually found in dense growths of scrub palmetto. Its song is quite unlike that of the northern bird. 683> Icteria. virens (Unn.). Yellow-bheasted Chat. Ad.— Largest of the Warblers; upper parts, wings, and tail olive-green ; line from the eye to the bill, one on the side of the throat, and eye-rin
. Handbook of birds of eastern North America : with keys to the species and descriptions of their plumages, nests and eggs, their distribution and migration ... Birds. 312 WOOD Fio. 110.—Yellow-breaated Chat. (Natural size.) This southern representative of the Maryland Yellow-throat is usually found in dense growths of scrub palmetto. Its song is quite unlike that of the northern bird. 683> Icteria. virens (Unn.). Yellow-bheasted Chat. Ad.— Largest of the Warblers; upper parts, wings, and tail olive-green ; line from the eye to the bill, one on the side of the throat, and eye-ring white; throat, breast, and upper belly bright yellow; lower belly white; sides grayish. L., r-44; W., 3-00; T., 3-07 ; B. from N., -41. Bange.—Eastern United States; breeds as far north as southern Minne- sota and Massachusetts; and winters in Central America. "Washington, common S. E., Apl. 29 to Sept. Sing Sing, common S. E., Apl. 28 to Aug. 29. Cambridge, rather rare S. E., May 15 to (?). Nest., rather bulky, of coarse grasses, leaves, and strips of bark well interwoven, lined with liner grasses, in a crotch near the ground. Mggs, three to five, white, rather evenly speckled and spotted with rufous-brown, -90 x -ee. Bushy undergrowths or thickets in partial clearings form the home of the Chat. After an acquaintance of many years I frankly confess that his true character is a mystery to me. While listening to his strange medley and watching his peculiar actions, we are cer- tainly justified in calling him eccentric, but that there is method in his madness no one who studies him closely can doubt. Is the odd jumble of whistles, chucks, and caws uttered by one bird in that copse yonder, or by half a dozen different birds in as many places ? Approach cautiously, and perhaps you may see him in the air—a bunch of feathers twitched downward by the queer, jerky notes which animate it. One might suppose so peculiar a performance would occupy his entire attention, but n
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