. The book of birds; common birds of town and country and American game birds . t is a Mexican species which has obtained afoothold along our southern borders in Arizonaand New Mexico. As I noted at the time, Isaw flocks of ten or fifteen among the pinesand spruces, the birds frequenting these treesalmost exclusively, only rarely being seen onthe bushes that fringed the stream. In habitsred-faced warblers are a rather strange com-pound, now resembling the common warblers,again recalling the redstart, but more often,perhaps, bringing to mind the less gracefulmotions of the familiar titmice. The
. The book of birds; common birds of town and country and American game birds . t is a Mexican species which has obtained afoothold along our southern borders in Arizonaand New Mexico. As I noted at the time, Isaw flocks of ten or fifteen among the pinesand spruces, the birds frequenting these treesalmost exclusively, only rarely being seen onthe bushes that fringed the stream. In habitsred-faced warblers are a rather strange com-pound, now resembling the common warblers,again recalling the redstart, but more often,perhaps, bringing to mind the less gracefulmotions of the familiar titmice. Their favoritehunting places appear to be the extremities oftlie limbs of spruces, over the branches ofwhicli they quickly pass, with a peculiar andconstant sidewise jerk of the tail. Since 1874other observers have had a better chance tostudy the bird and a number of nests have beentaken. These were under tufts of grass, andin the case of one found by Price was such apoor attempt at nest-building and made ofsuch loose material that it crumbled to frag-ments on being removed. 80. MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT Female and Male OVEN-KIRO YELLOW BREASTED CHAT RED-FACED WARBLER 81 WORM-EATING WARBLER(Helmitheros vermivorus) Range: Breeds mainly in tlie CarolinianZone from southern lovva, northern Illinois,eastern and western Pennsylvania, and theHudson and Connecticut River valleys southto southern Missouri, Tennessee, Xirginia, andmountains of South Carolina; winters fromChiapas to Panama, in Cuba and the Bahamas. He who would make the acquaintance ofthe worm-eating warbler must seek it in itsown chosen home, far from which it neverstrays. It is a bird of shaded hillside anddark thickets along watercourses. Thoughnimble in its movements and an active insecthunter, it is an unobtrusive little warbler,garbed in very modest colors, and is likelywholly to escape the notice of the ttnobservant. There seems to be an unusual degree ofjealousy among the males, and a pair, thehunting and the hunted, a
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