WESTERN BIRDS Warbl«r 



fir trees well out on a limb, or settled against the trunk. 



Bendire says that the birds build in willows, about four 

 feet from the ground, the nest being made of rotten plant 

 fibers and roots, lined with rootlets, hair and plant down. 



Coues says that this bird is closely related to the 

 Black-throated Green Warbler, of which it is the west- 

 ern representative. It will be seen that several of this 

 genus are marked much alike, although the colors are 

 differently arranged. 



Dr. Merriam gives the note of the Townsend as a 

 drawled dee-dee, dee-de-de, while Dawson records it as 

 dzwee, dzwee, dzwee, dzwee, dzweetsee, the first four 

 notes drowsy and drawling, the fourth prolonged, and 

 the remainder somewhat furry and squeaky. 



To me it matters not whether the bird sings, or not; 

 he is handsome enough to delight the eye, and the 

 Warbler songs, at best, are not very appealing. 



GENUS DENDROICA: HERMIT 

 WARBLER. 



Hermit Warbler: Dendroica occidentalis. 



FAMILY— WOOD WARBLERS. 



The Hermit is one of the daintiest, most strikingly 

 garbed of western Warblers. It breeds from British 

 Columbia (chiefly west of the Cascades) to southern 

 Sierra Nevada in California; in migration to Nevada 

 and Arizona, wintering in Mexico and Guatemala. 



The upper parts are gray, which becomes almost black 

 at the back of the neck, streaked with black; wings and 

 tail black with two bars in former and outer feathers 

 of latter, white; under parts white, save for a deep black 

 patch on chin and throat. But the thing which at once 

 attracts attention and makes the bird conspicuous at 



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