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Identifier: birdsnature11905chic (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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e mating andbreeding seasons when it will not per-mit a fellow male to come near its nestand mate. The males are jealous loversand there are many fluttering battlesof yellow, steely blue, and white, thoughthese conflicts are generally harmless toboth parties, and serve only to give un-wonted animation to the somber life ofthe swamp woods. Lowland and flooded woods are thehaunts of these attractive Warblers andthere only does it make its home. Forthis reason its popular name GoldenSwamp Warbler is a very appropriateone. Its range includes the United Stateseast of Nebraska and Kansas and fromIowa, Southern Michigan and Virginiasouthward. It is also an occasionalvisitor as far North as the New Eng-land States, Ontario and Minnesota. Itwinters in Cuba and Northern SouthAmerica. Prothonotary Warblers breedquite throughout their range withinthe United States and may be con-sidered resident wherever found in thesummer season. In some favorite locali-ties thev are exceedinqlv common. This 194
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FRQM COL. CHI ACAD. SCIENCES 46 FROTHONOTARY WARBLER. (Protonotaria citrea). About Life-size. COPYRIGHI •900, BY A. w. MUMFORD, CHICAGO is particularly true in the lowlands bor-dering the larger rivers, and occasion-ally isolated pairs will be found nestingin similar localities along smallerstreams. The nests, which are placedin deserted woodpecker holes, cavities inold stumps or even in deep crevices inold logs are usually plainly lined withrootlets or fibers from bark. Occasion-ally they are more elaborately lined withmoss, feathers, cast off snake skins andother materials suited to the fancyol the birds. Early in the season it isquite difficult to locate the nesting sites,and often one is finally surprised atthe number of pairs nesting in a colony.At Meredosia, Illinois, where I firstmade the acquaintance of these exquisitebirds, I found them nesting on thecomparatively dry river bank. Here,too, I found chickadees nesting andusing excavations precisely like thoseof the Warblers.

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