Identifier: popularhandbook00nutt (find matches)
Title: A popular handbook of the birds of the United States and Canada
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859 Chamberlain, Montague, 1844-1924
Subjects: Birds -- North America
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ut Saunders reports it common at times in the southern peninsula of Ontario, whileMcllwraith has seen it but twice near Hamilton. It is rare in theOttawa valley and near the city of Quebec, while common nearMontreal. Comeau says it breeds in numbers near Point deMonts, on the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and Macounreports it common around Lake Misstissini. It is not uncommon insome few localities in New Brunswick, where it remains all sum-mer. Very few nests have been discovered. The bird is very wary and always on the alert, — darting rapidlyfrom branch to branch. The song is a sweet-toned, cheery whistle,— somewhat similar to that of the Nashville, but so decidedlydifferent, writes Mr. Bradford Torrey, as never for a moment tobe confounded with it. He adds : The resemblance lies entirelyin the first part; the notes of the concluding portion are not runtogether or jumbled, after the Nashvilles manner, but are quite asdistinct as are those of the opening measure. PI AT
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1 . Mar\iand Yellow-Throal 2 . Bluebird. 3 . ANinter AVren. 4.Nasli\dlIe Warbler. 5 . Black-Throated Blue Warbler. 6 . Rubv-Cro^vned Kinglet. NASHVILLE WARBLER. 263 NASHVILLE WARBLER.Helminthophila ruficapilla. Char. Above, olive, brighter on rump; head ashy gray, with con-cealed patch of reddish brown ; yellow ring around the eyes ; beneath,bright yellow, paler on the belly; sides shaded with olive. Length 4^ to5 inches. A^est. Amid a tuft of weeds in pasture or open woodland ; composedof leaves and vegetable fibre, lined with grass, pine-needles, or hair. Eggs. 3-5 (usually 4); white or creamy, marked with fine spots ofreddish brown and lilac ; 0.60 X 0.50. This rare species was discovered by Wilson in the vicinity ofNashville in Tennessee; it also exists in the neighboring Statesin summer, and occasionally proceeds as far north as Philadel-phia, and even the neighborhood of Salem in this State (Mas-sachusetts). Its discoverer was first attracted to it by thesingular noise which it

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