. The birds of Washington; a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . Townsend,Audubon, Lutescent, and TohnieWarblers. Occasionally even thisfails. An early song which camefrom a young male feeding pa-tiently among the catkins of sometall, fresh-budding alders, had someof the airy qualities of the King-lets notes, Deo deopli, du du du, deo deo pli, deo dco pli, deo dco pli—amere fairy sibilation too fine for mortal ears to analyze. Another said boldly,Heo flidgity; heo flidgity, and Heo flidgity, chu weo. This Warbler is of rather irregular dist
. The birds of Washington; a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . Townsend,Audubon, Lutescent, and TohnieWarblers. Occasionally even thisfails. An early song which camefrom a young male feeding pa-tiently among the catkins of sometall, fresh-budding alders, had someof the airy qualities of the King-lets notes, Deo deopli, du du du, deo deo pli, deo dco pli, deo dco pli—amere fairy sibilation too fine for mortal ears to analyze. Another said boldly,Heo flidgity; heo flidgity, and Heo flidgity, chu weo. This Warbler is of rather irregular distribution in the western part of theState, where alone it is found. A preference is shown for rather open wood-land or dense undergrowth with wooded intervals. The fir-dotted prairies ofthe Steilacoom area are approved, and the oak groves have their the August migration I have found the bird almost abundant at are curious, too, and by judicious screeping I succeeded in calling thebird of the accompanying illustration down within five feet upon the over-hanging limb of an apple Taken near BlaiUPON THE e. Photo (retouched) by the LIMB OF ANAPPLE TREE. a. Handbook of Birds of W. U. S., p. 419. THE BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER. 189 Of their nesting Mr. Bowles says: In Washington these Warblers arestrictly confined to the large coniferous timber of the prairie country, duringthe breeding season placing their nests midway out on a fir limb, at from 25 to50 feet above the ground. Strangely enough, however, in Oregon they almostalways nest low down in the deciduous trees, sometimes only three or fourfeet up in a bush. In Washington the nests are always placed directly on alimb, while in Oregon my brother, Mr. C. W. Howies, found them mostly inupright crotches. The nest is rather aloosely-built little struc-ture, measuring external-ly three inches wide bytwo inches deep, internal-ly one and three-quartersinches wide by one i
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