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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 vi'inter 

 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 exc|ui- 

 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- 

 Photo b.v Robt. J. Sim. g^ Warbler, not 



A HOODED wARBLF.R's NEST. less beautiful that 



Taken near Jefferson. 



