. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . a male in full song. He describes thenotes as loud, emphatic, and rather monotonous, consisting of the , tick, tick, tick. Professor Lynds Jones renders the song, dice. , chw, chw, and says that the first three syllables are rapidly uttered and thelast two more slowly. To those people who reside in the temperate regions of the United Statesit is a very disappointing law of Nature that takes many of our beautiful andsweet tempered l
. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . a male in full song. He describes thenotes as loud, emphatic, and rather monotonous, consisting of the , tick, tick, tick. Professor Lynds Jones renders the song, dice. , chw, chw, and says that the first three syllables are rapidly uttered and thelast two more slowly. To those people who reside in the temperate regions of the United Statesit is a very disappointing law of Nature that takes many of our beautiful andsweet tempered little birds into the far North for the purpose of raising theiryoung. As a result of this natural law it is very difficult for students of bird-life to become acquainted with many of the warblers. Their habits and thecharacteristics of color and voice must be studied during the periods of northernand southern migrations. The study is rendered more difficult, as they remainbut a few hours or a few days at the longest, while they are en route. Also,while hurrying along on their journey, they fre((nent only the foliage of bush 478. 611 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER ( Helminthophila celata).Life-si/e. COPTfilGMT 190J, Br A. W. MUMfOHO, CHICAGO and tree, where, hidden from the gaze of the observer, they hunt during the dayfor their insect food. Absent today, present tomorrow, the warblers come andgo under cover of the night, and we may give a lifetime to their study andthen know we have not mastered the laws which govern their are at once the delight and the despair of field student. Visiting thewoods some bright morning in May one may find the trees alive with the busylittle warblers. Probably there will be several species; some of them but fewin number and rare, while other species will be more numerous in they will spend the day hunting in a happy go-lucky manner, and, thoughdifficult to be seen, they will be betrayed by the simple note which pervades the
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