WARBLERS 



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(685) Wilsonia pusilla pusilla 



(Wilum) (Lat., small). 



WILSON'S WARBLER; WIL- 

 SON'S BLACK-CAP. /Id. o" — 

 Plumage as shown by the lower bird; 

 cap bright, glossy black; rest of head 

 and under parts bright yellow, very 

 intense on the head; upper parts, 

 wings and tail bright oHve-green; no 

 wing bars or tail spots. Ad. 9 — 

 Duller colored and with httle or no 

 black on the crown, which is greenish 

 like the back. L., 5.00. Nest — Of 

 leaves and strips of bark, imbedded in 

 the ground under bushes, in swamps. 



Range — Breeds from Me., Ont. 

 and Minn, north to Newfoundland, 

 Ungava and Mackenzie. Winters 

 in Central America, migrating south 

 to Md. and then across to Tex., Mass. 

 in spring, May i; in fall, Sept. i. 



and nondescript series of whistles and squawks as he settles 

 earthward with fluttering wings and jerking tail. They not 

 only have considerable imitative ability but are no mean 

 ventriloquists, their voices often appearing to come from 

 almost any point of the compass even though the singer does 

 not change his position. 



Chats are very abundant in the Southern States and locally 

 found even north to New England and Ontario. Their 

 nests are in bushes or briers, usually about three feet above 

 ground. They are rather coarsely made of weeds, grass, strips 

 of bark and leaves, lined with fine grasses. It is almost im- 

 possible to flush a Chat from her nest, for she slips away long 

 before you are within sight of it. If she knows that it is dis- 

 covered, she almost always deserts it, first destroying the eggs. 



HOODED WARBLERS, I have always regarded as "the 

 most beautiful species that we have, next to the Blackbur- 

 nian, and even surpassing that species if we take into account 

 the companionable ways and interesting song of the present 



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