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Title: Bird neighbors : an introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Blanchan, Neltje, 1865-1918
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York : Double Day, Page
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nithologistshad a sudden zeal to investigate their structural anatomy. Atany rate, these birds, whose very tameness, that showed slightacquaintance with mankind, should have touched the coldestheart, received the warmest kind of a reception from hot shot.The few birds that escaped to the solitudes of Manitoba could notbe expected to tempt other travellers eastward by an account oftheir visit. The bird is quite likely to remain rare in the East. But in the Mississippi Valley and throughout the northwest,companies of from six to sixty may be regularly counted upon aswinter neighbors on almost every farm. Here the females keepup a busy chatting, like a company of cedar birds, and the malespunctuate their pauses with a single shrill note that gives littleindication of their vocal powers. But in the solitude of the north-ern forests the love-song is said to resemble the robins at thestart. Unhappily, after a most promising beginning, the birdsuddenly stops, as if he were out of breath. 192
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BLUE-WINGED YELLOW WARBLER.Life-size. Conspicuously Yellow and Orange Blue-winged Warbler (Helminthophila pinus) Wood Warbler family C«//«?^a/j-^.-BLUE-WINGED YELLOW WARBLER Length—4.)y inches. An inch and a half shorter than the Eng-lish sparrow. Male—Crown of head and all under parts bright yellow. Backolive-green. Wings and tail bluish slate, the former withwhite bars, and three outer tail quills with large whitepatches on their inner webs. Female—Paler and more oliVe. JRange—Eastern United States, from southern New England andMinnesota, the northern limit of its nesting range, to Mexicoand Central America, where it winters. Migrations—May. September. Summer resident. In the naming of warblers, bluish slate is the shade intendedwhen blue is mentioned; so that if you see a dainty little oliveand yellow bird with slate-colored wings and tail hunting forspiders in the blossoming orchard or during the early autumn,you will have seen the beautiful blue-winged warbler. It has

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