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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
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Hibbert Langille hasdescribed its song as consisting of thefollowing syllables: Chi-rcach-a-dce,reach-a-dee, reach-a-dec-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-chc, rup-it-c)ic, rup-it-chitt-it-Ut. 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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FROM COL. CHI. ACAD. SCIENCES 633 CANADIAN WARBLER. (Sylvania canadensis). About Life-size. COPVRIGHT 1904, BV A. W. MUMFORO, CHICAGO LITTLE PEOPLE OF THE POOLS. PART I. The Reverend Albert White, of Sel-borne, often lamented not living near theseashore, that he might note the migra-tions of birds; but he would doubtlesshave revelled, ^s the Rector of Eversleydid, in the Wonders of the Shore. When we were children, in the fiftiesand early sixties, all our books wereEnglish; which was often tantalizing,and never more so than when we wantedadvice for our aquariums. In this casewe could but turn to Charles KingsleysGlaucus, and half his animals wereunknown to us and half ours to him.Hermit crabs, live pets, and some anem-ones formed a common ground; butour pink doris, for instance, did notanswer to Kingsleys description, and sowe installed him with pride as a largeeolid, until his actions proclaimed hispredatory character, and he was turnedout. But he was merely a relative with thefamily

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