. Birds and nature in natural colors. . and Georgia ; winters fromX^era Cruz and Yucatan to Panama. While the hooded warbler has a wide range in eastern Inited States, itscenter of abundance is the lower Mississippi Valley. It is common only locallyand wholly absent from many sections except as a casual migrant. Of the bird,one of our most beautiful warblers. Chapman says: To my mind there is no warbler to which that much misused word lovelymay be so aptly applied as to the present species. Its beauty of plumage, charm ofvoice, and gentleness of demeanor make it indeed not only a lovely, but a
. Birds and nature in natural colors. . and Georgia ; winters fromX^era Cruz and Yucatan to Panama. While the hooded warbler has a wide range in eastern Inited States, itscenter of abundance is the lower Mississippi Valley. It is common only locallyand wholly absent from many sections except as a casual migrant. Of the bird,one of our most beautiful warblers. Chapman says: To my mind there is no warbler to which that much misused word lovelymay be so aptly applied as to the present species. Its beauty of plumage, charm ofvoice, and gentleness of demeanor make it indeed not only a lovely, but a trulylovable bird. Doubtless, also, the nature of the hooded warblers haunts increasesits attractiveness not merely because these w^ell-watered w^oodlands are in them-selves inviting, but because they bring the bird down to our level. This createsa sense of companionship which we do not feel with the bird ranging high aboveus, and at the same time it permits us to see this exquisitely clad creature undermost favorable conditions. 720. 388 HOODED WARBLER.(Silvani iiiitrata). Life-t^ize copys;ght 1901, BY *. w. vuMFC=ii, ch;caso Take a lump of molten gold fashioned like a bird, impress upon it a hoodof steel, oxidized, as black as jet, overlay this in turn with a half-mask of thegold, tool out each shining scale and shaft and filament with exquisite care, andyou may have the equal of one of those ten thousand-dollar vases of encrustedsteel and gold, which the Spanish are so clever at making, an heirloom to behanded down from father to son. But let Nature breathe upon it; let the Authorof Life give it motion and song: and you will have a Hooded Warbler, not lessbeautiful that you cannot handle it, but infinitely more so in that its beauty takesa thousand forms, a fresh one for every turn of fancy that may stir an avianbreast. The further charm of comparative rarity is added to this exquisite creation,so that not a few of us count upon our fingers the occasions upon which wehave b
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