Warbler WESTERN BIRDS 



These birds build in an upright crotch of a low tree, 

 or bush, in some thicket, placing the nest near the ground. 

 It is a bulky affair made of dry leaves, roots, strips of 

 bark, the inner part being made of fine grasses or root- 

 lets and forming a nest within a nest. 



Economically, this feathered clown is beneficial like 

 others of his family since he lives largely on insects, in- 

 cluding the alfalfa weevil, and the boll weevil, which is so 

 destructive to cotton. 



GENUS WILSONIA: WILSON'S 

 WARBLER. (Eastern.) 



Wilson's Warbler: Wilsonia pusilla pusilla. 

 FAMILY— WOOD WARBLERS. 



This gay little bird is a North American species which 

 breeds from the tree limit in northwestern and central 

 Mackenzie, etc., south to northern Minnesota, New 

 Hampshire, Maine, and Nova Scotia; wintering south 

 of the United States, and migrating mainly along the 

 Alleghenies. 



They are beautiful, plump little things that are 

 scarcely five inches in length, so brilliantly colored and 

 so friendly in their ways, that we cannot but regret that 

 they are not more widely distributed. We rejoice that 

 their place is filled in the west by two subspecies which 

 closely resemble them. 



Seen from below it seems to be just a bright yellow 

 bird, but once it has dropped to a lower plane, or turned 

 its head so you can catch a glimpse of the crown, you 

 will see that it is adorned by a black cap, which has 

 given it the name of Black-capped Warbler. The upper 

 parts are a bright olive-green, the wings and tail without 

 markings, and the bright black eye, ringless. 



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