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Identifier: birdlore181916nati (find matches)
Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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spring, I findmyself in a locality where Warblers are singing, if I can remain there a day ortwo and find what species are in song, and watch, and think hard, my memoryis at length refreshed to the extent that I soon begin to feel sure of distinguishingthe Redstarts tune with some degree of confidence. Others have at timesguardedly hinted that they have experienced similar difficulties in rememberingfrom year to year the Redstarts notes. It is certainly true that to any butthose with particularly gifted ears the song of this bird lacks any striking char-acteristic, such as we all readily recognize in that of many others, the Ovenbird,for instance, or the Wood Thrush. The nest of the Redstart is made of leaf-stalks, thin strips of bark, plantdown, and similar soft vegetable materials. Usually it is fined with fine rootletsor dehcate tendrils. Apparently it is always placed in the crotch of a sapling twoto fifteen to twenty feet from the ground. One favorite situation, in which I (202)
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REDSTARTUpper fi^re. female. Lower figure, male.Order—Passeres Family—Mniotiltid/E Genus—Setophaga Species—ruticilla National Association of Audubon Societies The Redstart 203 have often found the nest, is between a small branch, little more than a twig,and the main stem of the tree, often as much as three inches in diameter. Insuch positions the nests were frequently in plain view—after they were oncediscovered. Sometimes, however, the nest is so well hidden that it may bediscovered only after a most careful and prolonged search. The four or five eggs are white, variously blotched and spotted with brownand gray, thus resembling those of the yellow, or summer. Warbler. The\measure about si.xty-five hundredths of an inch long by fifty hundredths wide.

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