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Title: Birds and nature in natural colors.
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Chicago : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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th, and those which penetrate our stateare to be regarded only as pioneers or as adventurerers without fixed habits.Professor Jones has seen single males at Oberhn on two diflferent occasions,but there are no records for Ontario; and it seems probable that those birdswhich reach the Lake Erie short in spring turn southward again before settlingfor the summer. On the 11th of June, 1903, I came across a singing male on a hill-top nearSugar Grove, at the point shown in the illustration. The bird moved restlesslyfrom place to place, singing indifferently from the depths of black-berry thickets,from the tips of oak saplings, or from the foliage of surrounding forest trees.His time was about equally divided between singing and bug-catching, and althohe might remain in a single clump for five minutes at a time, the bird did notkeep the same position for two consecutive seconds. Even during song- hewould twist and writhe like an Italian prima donna, producing quite as muchmotion as music. 688
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492 PRAIRIE WARBLER.(Dendroica discolor.)About Liife-size. COPYRIGHT 1902, BY A. W. MUMFORO, CHICAGO The song of the Prairie Warbler is a Httle the most remarkable productionin the Mniotiltan repertoire. It is a succession of mellow whistling creaks, eachnote pitched higher than the preceding, and each gaining somewhat in intensityuntil the next to the last one is reached. The bird runs a weird chromaticscale upon a fairy oboe, with an effect which Dr. Coues describes as like amouse complaining of a toothache. The bird seen at Sugar Grove was entirely destitute of the brick-redspots upon the middle of the back, usually recommended as a recognition mark,and certain other marks were less distinct than normally in the adult male. Itwas probably a male of the second summer which had not yet attained adultplumage. Birds and Their Young By L. W. Brownell I wonder if any of my readers ever stopped to think what a busy life is abirds. Most especially is this true during the mating season when

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