PERCHING BIRDS 



682. Belding's Yellow-throat. Geothlypis 



beldingi. 



Range. — Lower California. 



This peculiar species is like the common yel- 

 low-throat but has the black mask bordered by 

 yellow instead of white, and the black on the 

 forehead extends diagonally across the head from 

 in front of one eye to the rear of the other. Theii 

 habits are like those of the other Yellow-thr 

 and the nests are similar to those of the latter, 

 which are frequently placed in cane over the 

 water. Nests found by Mr. Walter E. Bryanl 

 were situated in clumps of "cat-tails" between 

 two and three feet above the water; the nests 

 were made of dry strips of these leaves, lined 

 with fibres; the eggs were like those of the com 

 mon Yellow-throats but larger; size .75 x .56. 



682.1. Rio Grande Yellow-throat. Cham 

 irt hi y pis poliocephala. 



Range. — Mexico north to the Lower Rio Grande 

 Valley in Texas. 



This Yellow-throat has the crown and eai 

 coverts gray, only the lores and forehead being 

 black. The nests and eggs of these birds, which 

 are fairly common about Brownsville, Texas, do 

 not differ from those of the other Yellow-throats. 



683. Yellow-breasted Chat. Icteria virens 



I 



Rii 



' Grande rellov 

 yellow-bn 



Eastern United States, breeding from the Gulf 

 coast north to southern New England and Mir 

 nesota. 



This strange but handsome species is very com- 

 mon in underbrush and thickets in the south: they art 

 ■jr^ ; ..-V^ usually shy and endeavor, with succeE , to keep oul of 



sight, but their strange song and calls, consisting of 

 various whistles and squawks mingled together, arc often 

 -• heard. Their nests are buill in bushes or briars at low 



elevation-, being made of grass, strip- of bark and l< 



","♦--£ lined with tiner grass; then ire white, Bharplj 



speckled and -potted with various shade- of brown ami 

 " '"" lavender; size .90 x .70. 



68 >a. Long tailed Chat. Tcteria virens longicauda. 



Range. United States wesl of the Plains, breeding from Mexico to British 

 i lolumbia. 



This bird i- said tO be -river and to have a slightly longer tail than the last. 



ii.ii.it and egg are pr< • I els the ame. 

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