. The American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. Natural history. 190 OKDERS OF BIRDSâPERCHERS AND SINGERS times builds a floor over the unwelcome ; (Birdcraft, p. 95.) The Yellow-Breasted Chat^ is much larger than the typical wood warblers, being 7J inches long to their 5 or 5-\ inches. It has an olive-green back and a sulphur-yellow breast and throat, with a white line extending from its beak above and around its eye. By these colors, and its. RED-EYED VIKEO. erect tail,, it may easily be recognized. It is a very pert and saucy
. The American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. Natural history. 190 OKDERS OF BIRDSâPERCHERS AND SINGERS times builds a floor over the unwelcome ; (Birdcraft, p. 95.) The Yellow-Breasted Chat^ is much larger than the typical wood warblers, being 7J inches long to their 5 or 5-\ inches. It has an olive-green back and a sulphur-yellow breast and throat, with a white line extending from its beak above and around its eye. By these colors, and its. RED-EYED VIKEO. erect tail,, it may easily be recognized. It is a very pert and saucy bird, and much gi^'en to frequenting the haunts of counti-y dwellers. The Chat is not a great singer. He has no regular song, and the notes he utters are jerky, erratic and elusive. Its voice has some peculiar cjuality which renders this bird very difficult to locate by sound alone. Many times I have been completely misled by its call notes coming from a thicket, and finally found the bird yards away from the spot whence its go-as-}'ou-please voice seemed to come. "A Chat courtship," says Mr. A. C. Webb, in " Some Birds, and their Ways," " is a sight never to be forgotten. In the spring, when birds begin housekeeping, the male Chat charms himself and his mate by some remarkable performances in the air. Launching himself from the top of some tall tree, he flutters from side to side, flirts his tail, stops, stands on his head, dangles his ^ Ic-ie'ria vi'rens. Length, inches. legs as if they were broken, turns somersaults, and makes a monkey of himself generally, as he descends to the thicket below, where his mate is perched among the briers. Sometimes he starts from the low bushes and rises almost straight up into the air until he is above the tree- tops. He chatters and screams as he goes, telling her to watch him now as he comes down, and see if in all her life she ever saw a bird that could do such wonderful feats. No doubt to her eyes he is th
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