WESTERN BIRDS Warbler 



to northern Lower California, southern Arizona, and 

 northern New Mexico; winters in south of the United 

 States. 



Just why this bird was not called the black and white 

 striped warbler, rather than a name which does not ade- 

 quately describe it, I do not know. If, however, in your 

 woodland rambles you come upon a bird about five 

 inches long that has a black throat, a head striped in 

 black and white; a body gray with black markings, 

 the white under parts also having black stripes on sides, 

 you may be sure that you are beholding one of these 

 charming birds. They are supposed to have a yellow 

 spot over the eye, but unless you are very close, it will 

 not show. The female is duller, with crown grayer and 

 throat mottled with white ; young in fall plumage resem- 

 bling adults, but duller. 



The eastern bird most nearly resembling this one is 

 the Black and White Warbler, but it does not even 

 belong to the same genus, and is quite different in 

 actions. 



This little westerner builds a nest high up in a pine 

 tree, or lower down in a dense scrub oak thicket; build- 

 ing a rather loosely-constructed nest of dried grasses, 

 moss, and fibers, sometimes lined with feathers. Mrs. 

 Bailey says that it is especially fond of scrub oaks, 

 pifions, junipers, and manzanitas, where it sings its 

 simple zee-ee, zee-ee, ze, ze, ze song as it forages in the 

 bushes. 



Sometimes in migrations these birds come into my pep- 

 per trees, where they are not at all shy, not in the least 

 minding inspection. 



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