. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . ngth () ; five Columbus specimens: wing () ; tail () ; bill .40 (). Recognition Marks.—Medium size; golden yellow coloration; chestnutstreaks on breast of male; the commonest of the resident warblers. 136 THE YELLOW WARBLER. Nest, a compact cup of woven hemp and fine grasses, lined heavily withplant-down, grasses, and, occasionally, horse-hair, fastened to upright branch inrose-thickets and the like. Eggs, 4 or 5, white, bluish-, c
. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . ngth () ; five Columbus specimens: wing () ; tail () ; bill .40 (). Recognition Marks.—Medium size; golden yellow coloration; chestnutstreaks on breast of male; the commonest of the resident warblers. 136 THE YELLOW WARBLER. Nest, a compact cup of woven hemp and fine grasses, lined heavily withplant-down, grasses, and, occasionally, horse-hair, fastened to upright branch inrose-thickets and the like. Eggs, 4 or 5, white, bluish-, creamy-, or grayish-white,speckled and marked with largish spots of reddish brown, burnt umber, etc., oftenwreathed about the larger end. Av. size, .70 x .50 ( x ). General Range.—North America at large, except southwestern part, givingplace to D. ae. rubiginosa in extreme northwest. South in winter to CentralAmerica and northern South America. Breeds nearly throughout its NorthAmerican range. Range in Ohio.—Of universal distribution; the most abundant conspicuous as a passing FEMALE llKOnDING \OUNG Photo by R F. Griggs THE Summer Warblers gold is about as common as that of the Dande-lion, but its trim little form has not achieved any such distinctness in the publicmind. Most pe(i[)le, if they take note at all of anything so tiny, dub the birdsWild Canaries, and are done. The name as applied to the Goldfinch maybe barely tolerated, but in the case of the Warbler it is quite inappropriate,since the bird has nothing in common with a Canary except littleness and yel-lowness. Its bill is l(inger and slimmer, for it feeds exclusively on insectsinstead of seeds, and its ])ure yellow plumage knows no admixture, save for THE YELLOW WARBLER. 137 the tasty but inconspicuous chestnut stripes on the breast of the aduh stripes are lacking in males of the second year, whence Audubon wasonce led to elaborate a supposed new species, which he called
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