SONG-BIKDS. Warblers 



Eggs : 4-5, white, with irregular small blotches of reddish brown. 

 Mange : Eastern North America, westward to the Plains, and north 



to the Arctic regions ; south, in winter, to Central America and 



northern South America. 



The Canadian Warbler may be identified by the beauti- 

 fully wrought jet necklace which he wears across his yellow 

 throat, the black crown streaks, and the peculiar bluish ash 

 back. He has charming manners, and a dainty way of giv- 

 ing a little old-fashioned bob courtesy whenever he sees a 

 passer-by. His song is quite pretty, but not by any means 

 a certain mark of identification ; in fact, I do not think that 

 there are more than eight or ten of the whole Warbler tribe 

 whose notes will serve as a guide to any one but an ornithol- 

 ogist well up in field practice. 



American Redstart: Setophaga ruticilla. 



Plate 20. 

 Length: 5-5.50 inches. 



Male : Above brilliant blue-black, white belly, sides of body and wing 

 linings salmon-orange, which colour sometimes flushes the 

 breast. Some orange on base of wings ; tail feathers half 

 orange and half black. Bill and feet black. 



Female: Brownish olive above and the orange of the male replaced 

 by yellow. 



Song: Besembling that of the Yellow Warbler, "Sweet, Sweet, 

 Sweeter ! " but the word is only used three times, while it is 

 repeated seven times by the Warbler. 



Season : May to September ; a common summer resident. 



Breeds : Prom middle United States northward. 



Nest : A carefully made structure of moss fibres and sometimes horse- 

 hair, set in a forked branch usually about twenty feet from the 

 ground ; I have seen one at the top of a small spruce. 



Eggs : Indistinguishable from other Warblers. 



Range: North America, north to Port Simpson, west regularly to 

 the Great Basin, casually to the Pacific Coast ; in winter the 

 West Indies, and from southern Mexico through Central 

 America to northern South America. 



Again the colour title of a bird is a misnomer. Eedstart, 

 a corruption of the German roth stert, red tail, being very mis- 

 leading iri this day of accurate colour distinctions. Mrs. 



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