. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . danger, however, for the bird. The nest is lodged somewhereupon the hillside, half buried by festoons of running vines and mosses, or elsetucked away under the shadow of a log amidst a riot of dead leaves. Mere searchis useless. The bird will guide you to her nest—perhaps. If not, why try againnext year. If caught upon the nest sits close and braves the threatening hand, orelse flutters out and tumbles down the hill with every symptom of acute and most
. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . danger, however, for the bird. The nest is lodged somewhereupon the hillside, half buried by festoons of running vines and mosses, or elsetucked away under the shadow of a log amidst a riot of dead leaves. Mere searchis useless. The bird will guide you to her nest—perhaps. If not, why try againnext year. If caught upon the nest sits close and braves the threatening hand, orelse flutters out and tumbles down the hill with every symptom of acute and mostinviting distress. Of course the distress is only mental, and the invitation is with-drawn in the nick of time. The nest consists of a copious swathing of bark-strips and dead leaves, openat the top or side, according to the nature of the ground, and carefully lined withfine grass, hair, or moss. Upon one occasion only does the Worm-eating Warbler avail himself freelyof the more elevated perches which his forest home affords. In singing the birdmounts a limb twenty or thirty feet high and pours forth a torrent of notes not 870. ■iol WORM-EATING WARBLER. iHelmitherus vermivorus.)About Life-size. unlike those of the ChipjjinK Sparrcjw. So close is the resemblance that one \aalmost sure to be dcceivetl by them the first time ; but closer attention disclosestheir more rapid utterance and somewhat finer quality. One individual heard nearSugar Grove wound up his trill with an odd musical quirk quite out of character,and which he had borrowed, 1 faiuy, from a Hooded Warbler nesting near. Communion By Meliccnt Eno Hiimason < ne afternoon, as 1 was returning through a meadow, after tramping inthe mountains, I spied, sitting on the barbed wire fence directly before me, fivebaby barn swallows. Why must we insist upon calling these beautiful creatures of salmon andblue, such a raw, uncouth appellation ? They were all looking straight at me, but did not attempt to fly, thoughsurely o
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