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OUR SOUTHERN BIRDS 



close to you if you will keep still, peering at 

 you with bright eyes and chirping inquiringly. 



The Yellowthr oat's 

 "witchity witchity witch- 

 ity" is quite a distinctive 

 note, not easily confused 

 with that of any other 

 bird. 



PAEULA WAEBLER 



The Warbler colors 

 are, generally speaking, 

 bright yellow, slate gray, 

 chestnut, black and white, 

 and olive. Sometimes 

 nearly all of these are 

 laid on the feathers of a single bird, as in the 

 tiny Parula. The southern species is at home 

 in bayous and swamps where the long tillandsia 

 moss, drooping in gray 

 webs from the trees, 

 forms the most conveni- 

 ent of hiding places for 

 the almost weightless lit- 

 tle nest. 



The Northern variety blackburnian warbler 

 is said to be brighter Lengrth 5% inches 



colored. Both occasionally winter on the Gulf 

 Coast. 



PARULA WARBLER 



Length 4% inches 



