. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over 250 species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field . ined eye can distinguish them. The buffytinge over the under parts, the buffy under tail-coverts,and occasionally the tinge of reddish-brown along the sidesare their distinguishing marks. Chestnut-sided Warbler. Dendroica Ad. $. — Top of head yellow ; back in strong light of a green-ish tinge, streaked with black ; wing-bars yellowish ; cheekswhite ; sides of throat black ; a narro
. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over 250 species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field . ined eye can distinguish them. The buffytinge over the under parts, the buffy under tail-coverts,and occasionally the tinge of reddish-brown along the sidesare their distinguishing marks. Chestnut-sided Warbler. Dendroica Ad. $. — Top of head yellow ; back in strong light of a green-ish tinge, streaked with black ; wing-bars yellowish ; cheekswhite ; sides of throat black ; a narrow stripe of chestnut-redalong the sides of breast and belly. Ad. 9 • — Similar, but — Entire upper parts yellowish-green ; wing-bars yellowish ;under parts white. Nest, in a low, slight bush, often a blackberry or a , white, speckled, chiefly about the larger end, with reddish-brown. The Chestnut-sided Warbler is a common summer resi-dent of ]STew York and Xew England, but is less commonin the lower Hudson Valley than farther north. It arrivesearly in May and stays till the end of September. It pre-fers dry roadside thickets or clearings, and though its song. 118 BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND AND EASTERN NEW YORK closely resembles that of the Yellow Warbler, the two spe-cies are so rarely found breeding in the same kind of coun-try that one will not often confusetheir songs. The singer in the dryscrubby thickets is nearly always theChestnut-side, while the bird of thestreams and cultivated land is theYellow Warbler. Each of these two warblers com-Fig. 17. Chestnut-sided monly has two quite distinct songs,Warbler one strong and incisive, the other feebler and less piercing. The sharp incisive song of theChestnut-side ends with a phrase which has suggested therendering, Very, very glad to meet you. The loose or feeblesong has so little character that it is hard to learn. The yellow crown of this bird, and the white throat,breast, and belly make it easy to
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