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easily be passed by, as a busy group of Titmice intent only on satisfying their hunger. 
They appear to obtain most of their food from the branches, seizing the insects when 
at rest; but they are abundantly able to take their prey on the wing, and accomplish 
this much after the style of the Redstarts. Their disposition seems to prompt them 
to sociability with other species, and occasionally I found them accompanying the 
Audubon’s Warblers, and imitating them in their short flights from tree to tree, occasion- 
ally paying flying visits to the fallen logs and even to the ground. Save in being rather 
louder and harsher, their chirps resemble the notes of the Yellow-rump Warblers.” 
(Henshaw.) 
Mr. W. W. Price found a nest of this beautiful Warbler in the Huachuca Mountains, 
on May 31, 1888. This was at an altitude of about 6,500 feet. The nest was placed 
on sloping ground in a slight hollow and contained four fresh eggs. A few sprays of 
columbine hid the nest so completely that, had not the bird been frightened directly off 
from it, Mr. Price should not have found it. The structure was a very poor attempt 
at nest-building, and made of such loose material that it crumbled to fragments on 
being removed. ‘The chief substance was fine fibrous weed-stalks, while the lining 
consisted of fine grass, rootlets, plant fibres, and a few hairs. Skeleton leaves and bits 
of fine bark were scattered sparingly throughout the nest. Leaves and other rubbish 
had drifted with the wind or had been scratched up all around, to a level with the rim, 
so that one could hardly see where the nest proper left off. Inside the nest was about 
2.50 inches wide by 1.50 inches in depth; outside it was about 5.00 inches wide by 
3.00 inches in depth. The ground on which the nest was placed was so damp, that 
the bottom part of it was badly decayed.’? The “ground-color of the eggs is a delicate 
creamy-white, and they are spotted with small blotches of cinnamon-rufous and a few 
dots of heliotrope-purple and pale lavender. These form a wreath around the larger 
end. They resemble the eggs of Virginia’s and Lucy’s Warbler to a certain extent.” 
(Chas. E. Bendire.) 
NAMES: RED-FACED WARBLER. 
SCIENTIFIC NAMES: Muscicapa rubrifrons Giraud (1841). CARDELLINA RUBRIFRONS Scuat. (1855). 
DESCRIPTION: ‘‘Sexes, alike. Forehead, lores, cheeks, chin, throat, and sides of neck, rich vermilion-red, 
sometimes inclining to carmine; crown and ear-coverts, deep black; occiput, whitish; upper parts, 
uniform ash-gray; the rump, white, and middle wing-coverts indistinctly tipped with same; lower 
parts (except throat), whitish. 
“Length about 5.00 to 5.50 inches; wing, 2.53 to 2.80; tail, 2.32 to 2.60 inches. (Ridgway.) 
Three other beautiful Warblers, also figured and described in Giraud’s ‘‘Sixteen 
Species,’’ have not yet been met with in our territory. These are the RED WARBLER, 
Ergaticus ruber SCLAT. & SALY.; BRASHER’S WARBLER, Basileuterus culcivorus Bonap.; 
and BELL’s WaRBLER, Basileuterus belli Scat. 
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