The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-05

ever and you will see, peering curious
| ~ out at you from among the leaves,
an alert head with the blacklist of
masks drawn across the forehead, ex
| tending down to the bill and back over
the cheeks to the neck. This mask is
bordered above by ashy gray. The
crown Of the head and the rest of the
upper parts are rich olive. The throat
and breast are bright yellow. You will
see him throughout the SUMMERTIME
Maryland yellow throat-and you
doubtless wonder why he was not
named the black-masked warbler, as
the black mask is distinctive, while
many other warblers have the yellow
throat
Another common warbler resident
throughout the summer in the Ameri-
can redstart, the name being a corrup
ton of rothstert, red-tail. Its prevail
ing color is a lustrous blue-black. The
sides of the breast and the TANKS, and
a conspicuous spot on the wings, are a
| beautiful salmon-red and all except the
middle tail feathers are similarly col
ored for the first two thirds of their
length You will see it dashing to and
| 49, NANAA iiASCSSdllt iCllNllyy Ill
| ter Insects, which 1t snaps up on the
wing, fly-catcher fashion, flashing, me-
teor-like, among the leaves, zigzagging
| downward among the branches in pur-
| suit of a falling caterpillar or fleeing
| moth, then up again like rocket, its
| gorgeous tail ut all times spread out
like fan, 1t is no wonder that the Gu
bans have named it 'Candelita,' the
little torch"
| Three strikingly beautiful birds are
| the parula, or blue yellow backed, the
| magnolia, and the Canadian warblers.
The parula is ashy blue above, with
large triangular patch of greenish gold
en- In the middle of the back. The
throat and breast are yellow, with
more or less distinct dusky band across
the breast. The magnolia is perhaps
the most showily colored of all the brill
liant warbler family, and it is also one
of the commonest during the migra-
tions 1t has a light grayish-blue
crown, with a black forehead, black
cheeks, and a black stripe under the
eye. The wings are very dark, and the
back and tail nearly pure black, but the
latter has a large white spot near the
middle on either side, and there is a
white patch on the wings. The rump
and the entire under parts are rich
yellow, the latter heavily strefked, es-
pecially Oh the upper breast, with jet
| black. 1t is to be particularly noted
| that the white patches on the tail are
at the middle instead of at the end, as
| Is the case with others of the family
Fpytr cf tIa hiy,I-
more delightful than the wonder and
surprise of the first view of magnolia
| warbler The Canadian warbler is also
| bright yellow underneath, but the black
spots are in the form of an elegant
necklace across the upper breast while
the wings, back and tail are gray and
unspotted
! At about the same time as the Cana
| dian warbler, the Wilson's black-eap
will arrive. Smaller than most Of its
| family, 1t is known at d glance by the
following characteristics: The fore
| head, a line about the eye, and the en-
| tire under parts, bright yellow; the
crown, glossy black; the rest of the up
| per parts, light olive green. Like the
Maryland yellow-t throat, but unlike
|
thickets to trees.
| For few days, late In May, you may
see the Blackburnlan warbler with his
cadmium throat glowing like a
| live coal,
who let's his illumined being o'er-run
With the deluge of summer 1t receives
! during his sojourn in the Bahamas and
Central America Unlike the poets lit
tie bird, however, he does not so much
resemble blossom atllt among the
leaves as diminutive flash of light
ming playing hide and seek with the
sunbeams. His life Is one of incessant
activity, but in few days his visit here
has ended, and he has left for his nest
| ing-plaee among the coniferous forests
of northern New England and the Brit
ish provinces. You need not look be-
yond the "Promethean torch of its in
| tense fame-colored chin, throat and
| fore-breast" for means of identifica-
ton. If you do look farther you will
see that Its upper parts are chiefly
| black, with whitish streaks, and a
| large white wing patch, while in the
center of the black crown is an oblong
spot of the same fiery orange. Once
having seen the Blackburnian warbler
you will never forget it.
Towards the last of May you will
perhaps hear again and again from we'll
up in the tree-tops a succession of tsee,
tsee tsees, forming a perfect "crescen-
do ct diminuendo" There will be from
six to a dozen syllables in each strain,
SO thin and insect-like that you will
probably hear the sound many times
before you think of associating 1t with
bird, though doubtless you will learn
early that warblers are SO named APP
parently, because they do not MARBLE;
the black-t hroated green's fine voice
only proving the rule Do not, there
fore, neglect the above described per-
Torrance when you hear 1t, thinking it
the whir of an insect, but watch care
fully till you discover it's author.
Moving about among the tree-t tops,
with little of the superabundant ener-
gy of most of its family, you will find
at last a dainty creature almost as
streaked as your early acquaintance,
the black and white creeper. In this
bird, however the crown and whole up
per half of the head are black, the low
err half white, the separating line pass