Life histories of North American wood warblers, Part 1 (of 2)

At about 5:30 a.m. on July 3 the writer was attracted by a peculiar rolling motion of the egg in the nest, and noticed upon closer observation, that the shell bulged out in a ri...

_Breeding range._--The northern olive warbler breeds =north= to central Arizona (Baker's Butte and White Mountains) and central western New Mexico (Reserve). =East= to western N...

_Eggs._--Three eggs seems to form the usual set for the mangrove warbler; in the Thayer series there are five sets of three and one set of two. Ed. N. Harrison (MS.) says that "...

Combat with other species found within the territories of these birds was observed. Combat with the Bluebird was most frequent but one or more indications of opposition was noti...

The race of yellow warbler summering in the Great Basin and Rocky Mountain regions of the United States of late years has been generally overlooked and has been synonymized comm...

At the time of our visit to the breeding country, in the middle of June, nest building was completed and full sets of eggs had been laid. Altogether, ten nests were located, all...

_Voice._--Samuel F. Rathbun (MS.) gives me his impression of the song of the lutescent warbler as follows: "Its song is a succession of trilling notes on a slightly rising then...

In western Pennsylvania, "its local breeding range is correlated rather closely with the distribution of the white pine and the hemlock. Where these conifers prevail, the Black-...

The complete postnuptial molt occurs in July and August. The fall plumages of both sexes are like the spring plumages, but the clear blacks and yellows are largely concealed by...

_Nesting._--W. H. Werner was apparently the first to find the nest of the golden-cheeked warbler, in Comal County, Tex., in 1878, about which he wrote to Mr. Brewster (1879): "T...

Farther south, the black-throated gray warbler seems to prefer growths of hardwood and underbrush for its summer haunts--oaks, scrub oak, pinyon, juniper, manzanita, and the lik...

Dr. J. C. Merrill (1888) calls them "restless, shy, and very difficult to shoot", and says further, "When alarmed, as they very easily are, the males move rapidly through the tr...

Hoover's Warblers were numerous summer residents of the timber tracts throughout the Kowak Valley from the delta eastward. In the latter part of August scattering companies were...

_Nesting._--I believe that John Burroughs (1895) was the first naturalist to discover the nest of the "black-throated blue-backed warbler," as he called it, and he wrote an inte...

Ridgway (1902) describes the northern bird as "similar to _C. a. americana_, but slightly larger, with smaller bill and darker, richer coloration; adult male with blue of upper...

_Food._--We have no definite information about the food of Sennett's warbler, but Clarence F. Smith has sent me the following note: "The only laboratory report available on the...

To find the black-throated green warbler in a cypress swamp might seem strange indeed to one who knows the species in its spruce and balsam highlands, in the rhododendron and la...

In the second category is _Vermivora cincinnatiensis_ (Langdon), the Cincinnati warbler, described in 1880. "The unique type is regarded as a hybrid between _Vermivora pinus_ (L...

Forbush (1929) mentions two Massachusetts nests in tall white pines. A nest studied by Mrs. Nice (1930a), at Pelham, Mass., was "six feet up in a small red cedar on a branch nex...

As I was crossing the dry stream bed about a hundred yards below Boot Spring, I suddenly saw within twenty-five feet of me a female warbler with nest material in her bill. I sto...

During that same year Embody (1907) discovered Bachman's warbler breeding in Logan County, Ky., and later Holt (1920) found it nesting in Autauga County, Ala. The localities in...

_Winter range._--The principal winter home of the black-throated blue warbler is in the West Indies where it is found =north= to the Bahamas (Andros, Nassau, and Watling Islands...

Arrival dates in Georgia are similar to those in South Carolina. Around Charleston, there are comparatively few birds in evidence from November until late February, though indiv...

Margaret Morse Nice (1926) made a very elaborate study of the happenings at another nest; her account, containing many interesting observations, to which the reader is referred,...

Almost everyone emphasizes the resemblance of the song to that of the chipping sparrow. Burns (1905) says: "I can distinguish no difference between the notes of this species and...

On June 16, at 6.30 p. m., when the young were three days old, a downy puff appeared between the shoulders, wing quills being dark. The strongest bird had the eyes partly open a...

_Behavior._--A favorite locality for the golden-winged warbler to spend the summer in eastern Massachusetts may be the border of a wooded swamp where tall elm and maple trees sh...

It creeps along the branches and hops from twig to twig, often clinging to the under side of a cluster like a chickadee, an action that led some of the early writers to refer to...

_Winter range._--The magnolia warbler is found in winter =north= to northern Puebla (Metlatoyuca); Veracruz (Tlacotalpan); and Quintana Roo (Puerto Morelos and Cozumel Island)....

Its flight and all its movements seem to be regulated by gnats, its days one continuous hunt for dinner. When insects are scarce it will fly hesitatingly through the air looking...

Late dates of fall departure are: Ohio--Toledo, September 28. Indiana--Bloomington, October 9. Missouri--St. Louis, October 11. Kentucky--Bowling Green, October 5. Tennessee--Na...

On April 25, 1917, he saw a similar flight at the same place. "The day was rather warm and somewhat overcast, and the wave continued intermittently throughout the greater part o...

Francis H. Allen (MS.) writes the song as "_wee wee wee wee bzzz_, heard many times without any apparent variation." This was somewhat different from the song of a cerulean I he...

His gait is distinctly a walk, his motions gliding and graceful. Upon alighting in the branches, after being flushed from the ground, he assumes a statuesque attitude, like that...

_Fall._--Dr. Walkinshaw (1938) says that "the majority of the Prothonotaries leave our rivers [Michigan] by the second or third of July. One may canoe some years a good many mil...

_Food._--Throughout most of the year the Cape May warbler is insectivorous, and mainly beneficial, but for a short time on its fall migration it undoubtedly causes damage to rip...

A partial postjuvenal molt begins early in August, involving the contour plumage and the wing coverts but not the rest of the wings or the tail. This produces the first winter p...

_Behavior._--The eastern Nashville warbler is an active, sprightly, restless member of an active family, ranging in its foraging mainly in the lower story of the open woodlands...

This warbler may be found almost anywhere in New England during the fall migration wherever there are trees and shrubbery. In my experience the bird has been either in the trees...

"The second song consists of four or five notes only, with a definite time arrangement--3 2 1 1 or 3 2 1 1 1; that is, the first note is three times as long as the last and the...

Of the minor notes Andrew Allison (1907) says: "I know of no other warbler except the Chat that can produce so great a variety of sounds; and since nearly all of the notes resem...

"It is one of the first of the visitants from the North to arrive in Central America, appearing in Guatemala as early as August 9, reaching Honduras by at least the fourteenth,...

_Winter._--Dr. A. F. Skutch has contributed the following account: "The Tennessee warbler winters in Central America in vast numbers. Coming later than many other members of the...

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_Fall._--The myrtle warbler is one of the latest of its family to move southward and is also one of the most leisurely in migration; the migration covers practically the whole o...

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[Transcriber's Note: Emphasis Notation: _Italic_ and =Bold=; [M] and [F] represent male and female symbols respectively. Mathematical Notation - Whole and Fractional Part: 3-5/8...

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