BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER 



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Fall Migration. — 



PI.ACE 



North River, P. E. I 



St. John, N. B 



Southern Maine 



Fitchburg, Mass 



Portland, Conn 



Renovo, Pa 



Southeastern New York , 



Germantown, Pa 



Washington, D. C 



Raleigh, N. C 



Ottawa, Ont 



Chicago, 111 



Eubank, Ky 



New Orleans, La. (near) 



Tht Bird and its Haunts. — Singing freely while he travels, one 

 need not follow the Black-throated Green to his northern home to hear 

 the delicious, little lazy drawl which, near New York, marks the open- 

 ing days of Warbler time. Now we may find him almost anywhere 

 there are trees, but, arrived on his nesting ground, he shows a marked 

 preference for conifers. 



About Cambridge, Mass., where the Black-throated Green is 

 among the most abundant summer Warblers, Brewster^ writes that 

 its favorite haunts "are extensive, well-matured woods of white pines, 

 and rocky pastures growing up to pitch pines or to Virginia junipers.'^ 



About Monadnock, Gerald Thayer writes, the Black-throated 

 Green is "a very common or abundant summer bird through all the 

 region, high and low; ranging from the pine woods of the lowest 

 valleys to the half open copses of spruce and mountain ash along 

 Monadnock's rocky ridge, — 2,500 to 3,169 feet. High upon the moun- 

 tain, however, it is less common than the Myrtle, or even the Nash- 

 ville. Though decidedly a forest Warbler, it favors second growth, 

 and pasture-bordering copses, rather than the very heavy timber, and 

 is particularly partial to dry white pine woods. Its 'beat' lies between 

 the sunlit tops of middle-sized pines, spruce and other trees, and their 

 bottom branches on the outer borders of the groves. The deeply 

 shaded wood-interiors it seems rather to avoid ; and it is a great 

 haunter, especially while singing, of the spindling tops of fair-sized 

 conifers. Active, restless, but very tame, it is a noticeable little bird 

 wherever it occurs, particularly in the clearly-marked costume of the 

 adult male, whose almost fleckless yellow cheeks often lead chance 

 observers to describe it as yellow-headed." (Thayer, MS.) 



