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Title: Birds of New York
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Eaton, Elon Howard, 1866-1934
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Albany : University of the State of New York
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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adaptingitself, perhaps, more easily than the Ovenbird. The spring migrationbegins between the 27th of April and the 7th of May, depending uponthe advance of the season, average date near New York being about May i;in western New York, May 2 or 3. In the fall the last migrants departbetween the 23d of September and the 4th of October. Haunts and habits. The Redstart prefers a deciduous woodlandwith plentiful undergrowth of saplings and low trees. I have found itnesting in low, damp woods as well as in dry, well-drained upland woods;also in mixed woodland with a considerable growth of pine or hemlock,and in the Adirondacks where spruces occupy half the ground. Thisflaming little warbler is one of the liveliest of the family, continuallyfluttering about among the foliage and darting after flying insects, beingalmost as expert a flycatcher as the Wood pewee; in fact, the shape of its bill and the bristling of the rictus have often beguiled ornithologists into 30 466 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM
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Redstarts nest and eggs Photo by Ralph S. Paddock BIRDS OF NEW YORK 467 The Redstart ching, ching, placing it among the true flycatchers. As it flutters about the foliage it carries the wings and tail partially expanded, being even more addicted to this habit than the Magnolia warbler or any member of the family with which I am familiar. The general resemblance to the flitting of a butterfly has often been remarked by bird students with whom I have visited its haunts. The call note of the Redstart is a characteristic tsip. has several distinct songs. Chapman syllables one as ckee; ser-wee, swee, swee-e-e. Another . is often written zee-zee-zee, sharp, and rasping in tone, suggestive of the Black and white warblers. Sometimes it has a resemblance to the buzz of the Parulas song; again to the wheezing of the Black-throated blue. It is aliA^ays so thin and wiry in quality that the author is unable to hear it for more than twice the distance of the Black-poll warblers song. In my experien

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