WESTERN BIRDS Verdln 



is a bright yellow. The female is duller, and the young 

 lack the yellow color. The birds are over four inches in 

 length and the wings are longer than the tail. Save for 

 the yellow head and chestnut shoulder patch, they are 

 gray above and whitish below. 



Such interesting midgets are they, building long hang- 

 ing nests which they occupy as sleeping quarters in the 

 winter time, flitting about from bush to bush, and gen- 

 erally making themselves attractive, that we cannot help 

 but regret their limited range, which includes the deserts 

 of southwestern United States and Mexico from southern 

 California, southern Nevada, and southern Texas, south. 



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