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Identifier: bookofbirdscommo00nati (find matches)
Title: The book of birds, common birds of town and country and American game birds
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: National Geographic Society (U.S.) Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930 Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927 Kennard, F. H., (Frederic Hedge), 1865- Cooke, Wells Woodbridge, 1858-1916 Shiras, George, 1859-1942
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : National Geographic Society
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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t is a Mexican species which has obtained afoothold along our southern borders in Arizonaand New Mexico. As I noted at the time, Isaw flocks of ten or fifteen among the pinesand spruces, the birds frequenting these treesalmost exclusively, only rarely being seen onthe bushes that fringed the stream. In habitsred-faced warblers are a rather strange com-pound, now resembling the common warblers,again recalling the redstart, but more often,perhaps, bringing to mind the less graceful mo-tions of the familiar titmice. Their favoritehunting places appear to be the extremities ofthe limbs of spruces, over the branches ofwhich they quickly pass, with a peculiar andconstant sidewise jerk of the tail. Since 1874other observers have had a better chance tostudy the bird and a number of nests have beentaken. These were under tufts of grass, andin the case of one found by Price was such apoor attempt at nest-building and made ofsuch loose material that it crumbled to frag-ments on being removed. 80
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MARYLAND YELLOW-THROA IFemale and Male UVEN-BIRl> YELLOW-BREASTtI) CHAT RID FACED WARBLER 81 WORM-EATING WARBLER(Helmitheros vermivorus) Range: Breeds mainly in the CarolinianZone from southern Iowa, northern Illinois,eastern and western Pennsjlvania, and theHudson and Connecticut River valleys southto southern Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia, andmountains of South Carolina; winters fromChiapas to Panama, in Cuba and the Bahamas. He who would make the acquaintance ofthe worm-eating warbler must seek it in itsown chosen home, far from which it neverstrays. It is a bird of shaded hillside anddark thickets along watercourses. Thoughnimble in its movements and an active insecthunter, it is an unobtrusive little warliler,garbed in very modest colors, and is likelywholly to escape the notice of the unobservant. There seems to be an unusual degree ofjealousy among the males, and a pair, thehunting and the hunted, are often seen pur-suing a rapid, zigzag flight through trees andbushes. I ima

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