. 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 . )rincipally in groves of whitepine. While migrating in spring and fall it feeds anywherein mixed deciduous woods, but it is evidently more at homeamong the i)ines, where it gleans its usual food from thelowei Immches to the tree tops. This bird docs not com-monly descend to the ground except to procure nestingmaterial or to bathe. SONG BIRDS OF ORCHARD AND WOODLAND. 199. Fig
. 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 . )rincipally in groves of whitepine. While migrating in spring and fall it feeds anywherein mixed deciduous woods, but it is evidently more at homeamong the i)ines, where it gleans its usual food from thelowei Immches to the tree tops. This bird docs not com-monly descend to the ground except to procure nestingmaterial or to bathe. SONG BIRDS OF ORCHARD AND WOODLAND. 199. Fig. 67. — Black-throatedGreen Warbler, naturalsize. One day, as I stopped to drink at a spring in the woods, abeautiful male Black-throated Green Warljler shot down froma tall tree and alighted on a moss-grown rock that borderedthe diminutive })Ool. Evidently he had not expected me, butwas not at all afraid. He looked up at me incjuiringly for amoment, and then, stepping into theshallow water, dipped his head andthrew the drops in showers as heshook out his brilliant plumagein the bath. His ablutionsfinished, quite within reachof my hand, he mounted againto the tree top, and sent back his drowsysong. This bird has several chirps which itutters to express dilierent emotions, butits song is most charming, harmonizing, as it does, with thewhispering of the pines to the summer wind. It has a zeeingsound. Hoffman gives it as zee., zee, zu, zi. This is givenwith a little of the quality which characterizes the song of theharvest cicada, and often with a difference in the pitch of thefirst
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