CHAPTER XX. 



BIRD-LIFE IN NOVA SCOTIA. 



NOVA Scotia is especially favored with the Warblers. 

 The beautiful and musical Yellow Warbler (D. astiva) 

 is as common here as in New England, and with its usual 

 familiarity, may build its nest in the rose-bush by the 

 front door. From almost every clump of evergreens comes 

 the peculiar ditty of the Black-throated Green Warbler 

 (D. virens). The sprightly whistle of the Black-and- Yellow 

 Warbler (D. maculosd) is quite common to the evergreen and 

 mixed forests; the musical twitter of the Yellow-rump (D. 

 coronatd) is often heard in the pine groves; the soft shrilling 

 insect-tones of the Yellow-backed Blue Warbler (Parula 

 americana) is nearly as common as in New England; the 

 conspicuous little figure of the Black-and-white Creeping 

 Warbler (Mniotilta varia) is frequent on the trunks of the 

 lowland forest-trees; the Black-throated Blue Warbler (D. 

 ccerulescens] is not rare; the Maryland Yellow- throat (Geothly- 

 pis trichas] delights in the swamps and numerous wild 

 meadows; the Redstart (Sttophaga ruticilld] flashes among 

 the foliage; the Chestnut-side is to be found occasionally; 

 Audubon reports the nest of the Blackburnian from this 

 locality; and Mr. Andrew Downes regards the Yellow Red- 

 poll as a common resident. All of the above no doubt breed 

 in the numbers there indicated, while the echoing chant of 

 the Golden-crown (Seiurus aurocapillus] is frequently heard; 



