. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . th ( ) ; 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-, cr
. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . th ( ) ; 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. ritbiginosa 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 BROODING \ OUNG. THE Summer Warblers gold is about as common as that of the Dande-lion, but its trim little furm has not achieved any such distinctness in the publicmind. Most people, 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, liut in the case oi the Warbler it is quite inappropriate,since the bird has nothing in common with a Canary except littleness and yel-lowness. Its bill is longer and slimmer, for it feeds exclusively on insectsinstead of seeds, and its pure yellow ]ilumage knows no admixture, save for THE YELLOW WARBLER. 137 the tasty but inconspicuous chestnut stripes on the breast of the adult stripes are lacking in males of the second year, whence Audubon wasonce led to elaborate a supposed new species, which he called the ChildrensWarbl
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