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NA TURE-STUD Y RE VIEW [11 :4— Apr., 1915 



Cape May Warbler 



Yellow Warbler 



Blaek-throated Blue Warbler 



Myrtle Warbler 



Magnolia Warbler 



Chestnut-sided Warbler 



Bay-breasted Warbler 



Black Poll Warbler 



Blackburnian Warbler 



Black-throated Green Warbler 

 fPine Warbler 



Palm Warbler 



Connecticut Warbler 



Mourning Warbler 



Wilson's Black-cap Warbler 



Canadian Warbler 



Oven Bird 



Water Thrush 



Grinnell's Water Thrush 

 *Yellow-breasted Chat 



Md. Yellow-throat 



American Redstart 



Catbird 



Brown Thrasher 

 tBerwick's Wren 



House Wren 



Winter Wren 

 *Short-billed Marsh Wren 



Long-billed Marsh Wren 



Brown Creeper 



White-breasted Nuthatch 



Red-breasted Nuthatch 



Chickadee 



Golden-crown Kinglet 



Ruby-crown Kinglet 



Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 



Wood Thrush 



Wilson's Thrush 



Gray-cheek Thrush 



Olive-back Thrush 



Hermit Thrush 



Robin 



Blue Bird 



Bird-Study at the Northern Illinois State Normal 



School 



Jessie R. Mann 



Photographs by Ralph E. Wager 



Springtime is bird-time, the happiest time in all Nature's 

 calendar for those who love the out-of-doors. Even in February 

 the brave little song sparrow is on our campus flinging out his 

 cheery song over the melting snow. Robins, bluebirds, and 

 meadow larks soon follow him and by the first of April we are 

 seeing a new-comer nearly every day. Some remain with us only 

 a few days or weeks, others choose their nesting places among our 

 honeysuckles and spirea or in the elms and willows and spend the 

 summer. 



Grackles are our most numerous (tho not our best loved) birds 

 and nest in greatest number. They have quite preempted a 

 thicket of hawthorn trees and more than twenty nests can be 

 counted in a small area. The denser the thicket the nearer to- 

 gether are the nests placed. During the time nestlings are being 



