. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. Ii6 BIRDS OF AMERICA nearly always lined with red flower-stalks of hair moss. Eggs: 3 to 6, usually 4, white thinly or thickly marked with spots and blotches of Indian red, lavender, and chestnut sometimes wreathed but more often evenly •distributed. Distribution.— Eastern United States, more common southerly, breeding northward to southern Connecticut, southeastern New York (lower Hudson valley), Penn- sylvania, southern Wisconsin (vicinity of Racine), etc., occasional in Massachusetts; in migration casually to Massachusetts, Vermont, western New Y
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. Ii6 BIRDS OF AMERICA nearly always lined with red flower-stalks of hair moss. Eggs: 3 to 6, usually 4, white thinly or thickly marked with spots and blotches of Indian red, lavender, and chestnut sometimes wreathed but more often evenly •distributed. Distribution.— Eastern United States, more common southerly, breeding northward to southern Connecticut, southeastern New York (lower Hudson valley), Penn- sylvania, southern Wisconsin (vicinity of Racine), etc., occasional in Massachusetts; in migration casually to Massachusetts, Vermont, western New York, southern Ontario, and southern Wisconsin; winters south to Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, and through eastern Mexico and Central America to Panama. The Worm-eating Warbler is distinctly a ground Warbler, a very differently acting bird from most of the Warbler family. Most of them are rather excitable, nervous birds of the tree- tops. The Womi-eater is a quiet bird that spends most of his time on the ground or within a few feet of it, walking, not running; and some- times creeping along a tree trunk like the Brown Creeper or the Black and White Warbler. On the ground this bird is rather cocky-acting, step- ping along deliberately under the huckleberry bushes or other dense undergrowth, with his tail slightly raised. He has a smart and jaunty air and also a shy disposition that reminds one of a Thrush at his sprightliest. The Worm-eating W^arbler is not so rare as it has been credited, ^^'here bird students have given time to search his haunts, he has been found fairly common as far north as southern New England, southern Michigan, and Nebraska. But the search for him has to be itiade in ravines and on dry forested hillsides where the undergrowth makes a convenient nesting site. This bird loves his home locality. It has been frequently ob- served how year after year the birds will come back to the same thicket, building their new nest within sight of the old ones. Its ordinary
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