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Identifier: birdsnature151904chic (find matches)
Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Hibbert Langille hasdescribed its song as consisting of thefollowing syllables: Chi-reach-a-dee,reach-a-dee, reach-a-dee-chi, uttered in ahurried and spirited manner, with a strik-ing mixture of sibilant notes andso much ventriloquism that it seemsalmost impossible to locate the singer,though he. be but a few yards dis-tant. Mr. Ernest E. Thompson de-scribes its song as loud and rasping, andgives it the following syllabic rendering:Rup-it-che, rup-it-che, riip-it-chitt-it-lit/ It sings frequently during the spring,but becomes silent before the close ofsummer. The nest of the Canadian Warbler isbuilt upon the ground in woods, inshrubby fields or in shaded swampyplaces. Audubon alone describes it asbeing found elsewhere. He writes offinding a nest in the fork of a smallbranch of laurel, not above four feetfrom the ground. The nest is usuallyplaced beside a log or among roots, andis made of quite loosely arranged leaves,dried grasses and weed stalks, roots andhair; it is lined with hair.
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