. Bird neighbors. An introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes . to the undergrowth is unfortunatelytimed and there happens to be a bulky nest in process of con-struction on the ground, a quickly repeated, vigorous chit, pit,quit, impatiently inquires the reason for your bold discreetly and listen to the love-song that is presentlypoured out to reassure his plain little maskless mate. The musicis delivered with all the force and energy of his vigorous natureand penetrates to a surprising dista
. Bird neighbors. An introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes . to the undergrowth is unfortunatelytimed and there happens to be a bulky nest in process of con-struction on the ground, a quickly repeated, vigorous chit, pit,quit, impatiently inquires the reason for your bold discreetly and listen to the love-song that is presentlypoured out to reassure his plain little maskless mate. The musicis delivered with all the force and energy of his vigorous natureand penetrates to a surprising distance. Follow me, follow me,follow me, many people hear him say; others write the syllables,Wichity, wichity, wichity, wichity; and still others writethem, I beseech you, I beseech you, I beseech you, though thetones of this self-assertive bird rather command than Frank Chapman says of the yellowthroats : They singthroughout the summer, and in August add a flight-song to theirrepertoire. This is usually uttered toward evening, when the birdsprings several feet into the air, hovers for a second, and thendrops back to the bushes. 3o8. BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER Conspicuously Yellow and Orange Blackburnian Warbler {Dendroica blackburnice) Wood Warbler family Called also: HEMLOCK WARBLER; ORANGE-THROATEDWARBLER; TORCH-BIRD Length—^ to inches. An inch and a half smaller than the English —Head black, striped with orange-flame; throat and breast orange, shading through yellow to white underneath; wings, tail, and part of back black, with white —Olive-brown above, shading into yellow on breast, and paler under —Eastern North America to plains. Winters in —May. September. Spring and autumn migrant. The orange-throated warbler would seem to be his rightname, his characteristic cognomen, says John Burroughs, in ever-delightful Wake Robin; but no, he is doomed to wear thename of some discoverer, perhaps the first
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