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Title: Bird neighbors. An introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Blanchan, Neltje, 1865-1918
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap

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o the undergrowth is unfortunatelytimed and there happens to be a bulky nest in process of con-struction on the ground, a quickly repeated, vigorous chit, pit,quit, impatiently inquires the reason for your bold intrusion.Withdraw discreetly and listen to the love-song that is presentlypoured out to reassure his plain little maskless mate. The musicis delivered with all the force and energy of his vigorous natureand penetrates to a surprising distance. Follow me, follow me,follow me, many people hear him say; others write the syllables, Wichity, wichity, wichity, wicbity; and still others writethem, I beseech you, I beseech you, I beseech you, though thetones of this self-assertive bird rather command than entreat.Mr. Frank Chapman says of the yellowthroats : They singthroughout the summer, and in August add a flight-song to theirrepertoire. This is usually uttered toward evening, when the birdsprings several feet into the air, hovers for a second, and thendrops back to the bushes. 208
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BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER Conspicuously Yellow and Oratige Blackburnian Warbler (Dendroica Uackbiirnice) Wood Warbler family Called also: HEMLOCK WARBLER ; ORANGE-THROATEDWARBLER ; TORCH-BIRD Length—4.^ to 5.5 inches. An inch and a half smaller than the English sparrow.Male—Head black, striped with orange-flame ; throat and breast orange, shading through yellow to white underneath ; wings, tail, and part of back black, with white markings.Female—Olive-brown above, shading into yellow on breast, and paler under parts.Range—Eastern North America to plains. Winters in tropics.Migrations—May. September. Spring and autumn migrant. The orange-throated warbler would seem to be his rightname, his characteristic cognomen, says John Burroughs, in ever-delightful Wake Robin ; but no, he is doomed to wear thename of some discoverer, perhaps the first who robbed his nestor rifled him of his mate — Blackburn; hence, Blackburnianwarbler. The hum seems appropriate enough, for in these darkever

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