The Warblers in Central New York 



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though there are many individual exceptions, even among such brightly 

 colored males as the Redstart and Black-throated Blue Warblers. When it 

 comes to the care of the young, the males ordinarily share the labors equally 

 with the females, and in the presence of danger are much more courageous or 

 at least less timid in their defense. 



Seldom, if ever, do any of the Warblers raise two broods, though they 

 ordinarily persist until they have successfully raised one. Since many of the 



FEMALE REDSTART AND NEST 



first nests are broken up, even two or three times, Warblers are often found 

 nesting far into July, but I have never discovered any positive second broods. 

 At the close of the nesting season, the males are the first to molt, but the 

 young often begin their wanderings before the males start on their southward 

 migration, and are, therefore, the first to appear outside their normal range. 

 The first Warblers are heard going over at night, usually the last week in 

 July, when there is, apparently, a movement of Ovenbirds, Water-Thrushes, 

 Black and White, Chestnut-sided, and Yellow Warblers, and Redstarts. About 

 this time the Chats disappear. The cool spell which occurs about the middle 



