. Bird studies; an account of the land birds of eastern North America . is aboutsix and a quarter inches long, is olive green above, with a decided brownishtone. There is a crown spot of golden brown defined by a black line on eachside of it. The under parts are white and there is a narrow black line oneither side of the throat. The breast and sides are streaked with black. Thesexes do not differ in appearance. The birds breed on the ground, building a bulky, covered nest generallyin the open woods where dry leaves cover the ground. The outside is dryleaves, bark, grasses, and vegetable fibre.
. Bird studies; an account of the land birds of eastern North America . is aboutsix and a quarter inches long, is olive green above, with a decided brownishtone. There is a crown spot of golden brown defined by a black line on eachside of it. The under parts are white and there is a narrow black line oneither side of the throat. The breast and sides are streaked with black. Thesexes do not differ in appearance. The birds breed on the ground, building a bulky, covered nest generallyin the open woods where dry leaves cover the ground. The outside is dryleaves, bark, grasses, and vegetable fibre. This is lined with finer grasses androots ; the entrance is at one side. While this structure is more frequently inan open place, its environment conceals it so effectually that it would but sel-dom be found save for the presence of the birds and their evident solicitude. In the Woods. 119 The four or five white eggs are marked and speckled with reddish brownof varying shades and pattern. They are four fifths of an inch long, and threefifths in their other OVEN BIRD. GOLDENCROWNED THRUSH. ADULT MALE. This is a bird of the pine woods. Rarely found in other such forests are extensive it is often common and frequently abundant. These birds are about five and a half inches Warbler. -pj^^ male bird is olive green above, suffused more or less Dendroica vigorsii I Aud.). 1 1* • i T^l with grayish, particularly in the autumn. 1 he wings aredusky gray with generally lighter edgings of gray, and tinged with olive are two whitish wing bars, and the inner vanes of the two outer tailfeathers are white on their terminal half or third. The throat and sides arebright gamboge yellow, which grades into white on the belly and under thetail. There are dark stripes on the sides of the breast and below the eye,which sometimes extend to the flanks and chest. The females are similar to the males. Some individuals that I have dis-sected are identical
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