1gO THE HOODED WARBLER. 
Nest, in bushes or saplings from one to five feet up, of bark-strips, leaves, 
grass, and trash, more or less interwoven with spiders’ silk, and lined with hair or 
fiber. Eggs, 4 or 5, white or creamy white, dotted and spotted with reddish 
brown or umber, chiefly in wreath about larger end. Av. size, .71 x .51 (18. x 13.). 
General Range.—Eastern United States west to the Plains, north and east 
to southern Michigan, southern Ontario, western and southeastern New York and 
southern New England. Breeds from the Gulf of Mexico northward. In winter 
West Indies, eastern Mexico and Central America to Panama. 
Range in Ohio.—Rare summer resident, locally restricted. 
TAKE a lump 
of molten gold 
fashioned like a 
bird, impress upon 
it a hood of steel, 
oxidized, as black 
as jet, overlay this 
in turn with a 
half-mask of the 
gold, tool out 
each shining scale 
and shaft and fila- 
ment with exqui- 
site care, and you 
may have the 
equal of one of 
those ten thou- 
sand dollar vases 
of encrusted steel 
and gold, which 
the Spanish are 
so clever at mak- 
ing, an heirloom 
to be handed 
down from father 
to son. But let 
Nature breathe 
upon it; let the 
Author of Life 
give it motion and 
song; and you 
will have a Hood- 
ed Warbler, not 
\ HOODED WARBLER’S NES1 less beautiful that 
Taken near Jefferson. Photo by Robt. J. Sim. 
