. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds. Birds; Birds. SONG BIRDS OF ORCHARD AND WOODLAND. 187. in the woods. While it feeds somewhat in trees, its habit, like that of other Warblers of the genus, is to keep near the ground and in shrubbery; hence it is often seen along bushy roadsides, particularly where the road crosses a swamp or stream. It usually keeps close to the underbrush, peering out from between leaves an
. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds. Birds; Birds. SONG BIRDS OF ORCHARD AND WOODLAND. 187. in the woods. While it feeds somewhat in trees, its habit, like that of other Warblers of the genus, is to keep near the ground and in shrubbery; hence it is often seen along bushy roadsides, particularly where the road crosses a swamp or stream. It usually keeps close to the underbrush, peering out from between leaves and stems, and occasionally taking short flights near the ground. It greets all comers with a sharp chirp, or voices its alarm in a rat- tling, Wren-like chatter. In singing it sometimes mounts to a high perch m. „ v „. ^ o * Fig. 61. —Northern lellow- in a tree or rises in air, but ordinarily throat, two-thirds natural delivers its song while pursuing its usual avocations among the shrubbery. The song is a series of phrases, with the accent on the first syllable, thus, skh'-a-iciygle, sich'-a-iriggle, sich'-a-n;iggle, or in some cases witchery, icitchery, icitchery. It is much varied in length and expression, but usually may be known by the repeti- tion of the strongly accented syllable. Like many other Warblers, this bird has three or more variations to its strain, but with perhaps one exception they are all unmistakable. The Yellow-throat usually arrives at its chosen haunts in Massachusetts early in May. It often lays two sets of eggs, and two broods are sometimes reared. In the fall flights the birds may be seen from time to time as they stop on their journey southward. One day you will find scarcely one ; the next, the brooksides and river banks may be alive with them. This bird is undoubtedly among the most use- ful species which in summer frequent our shrubbery, wood- lands, orchards, roadsides, and bushy pastures. In pastures the Yellow-throat eats many leaf hopper
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