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Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Banta, Nathaniel Moore, 1867- Schneider, Albert, 1863- Higley, William Kerr, 1860-1908 Abbott, Gerard Alan
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, American Audobon association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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uchlike a mouse complaining of the toothache as anything elseI can liken it to — it is simply indescribable. The flight of the Prairie Warbler is neither strong norprotracted. Yet it is one of the most expert flycatchersamong the warblers. It is not a social bird, and it is veryseldom that more than two or three are seen together. The prairie warbler is prettily colored. The back ismarked with reddish-brown spots on an olive-green ground.Beneath the eye of the male there is a streak of black whichis absent in the female. The throat and under parts are arich yellow color, with small spots of black on the sides ofthe neck. The female is duller in color. The nest is nearly always placed in the fork of a branchof a tree or shrub, and never far from the ground. A wildrose bush is sometimes selected. Mr. Welch describes onethat he found in such a place. It was mainly constructedof the soft inner bark of small shrubs mingled with dryrose leaves, bits of wood, woody fibers, decayed stems of
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492 PRAIRIE WARBLER. (Dendroica discolor.) About Liife-size. MUMFORO, CHICAGO

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