Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
This and That

By CnGTLES A.. IT6celGeH
Some one who is q little behind time wants
to know the name of q warbler seen last Sep
TENDER.
The description given is as follows
Length, 5 inches; dark line from bill to eye,
no outstanding facial pattern; gray green
head, neck and back; gray-green and black
tail, with some white; bright yellow throat with
black stripes just below, forming almost =
necklace"
This bird was the Canada warbler, or neck
laced warbler.
feet little necklace around the neck, rs de-
scribed. ..:. o., $780,.
The black pendants on the yellow breast
set this species apart from all others.
The bird loves shrubbery and Is almost
always seen there, or even in q tree.
It Is seen here only in spring and fall naisTa-
lions, and mostly heeting glance or two, as
1t does not stay around long.
Other names for this species, in addition to
Canada warbler and necklaeed warbler, are
Canadian warbler, Canads, hycatcher, Cana
dian hycatching warbler, speckled Canada
warbler, spotted Canadian warbler and Canada
necklace. ,,>
Truly, there are too many "csnsdas" in
those names!
OF interest Is Canadian nycatching war
bier" which manages to- get about all the words
into the one name.
II Il x
Popular naming Is odd, to say the least 1t
is 4 wonder this warbler was not ut some time,
by some one called thrush, or even \ night
ineale, for it has sweet, typicaly waroilns
song.
This necklsced warbler Is O. relative of the
hooded warbler and Of the Wilson warbler.
The necklaced bird takes some OF It's food
on the wing, hence "hycatcher" but 1t also
eats among leaves, hence It's presence in shrub
berry ut migration time.
Another little bird to be seen in bushes
hereabout is the Maryland yellow-throat, also
q warbler. t''
This one is tiny, mere ~ inches, as COM
pared with the 5A inches OF the Canada
warbler. ....-.,..
The yellow-throat is the one that is sup
posed to say "witchery, witchery, witchery,
witchery." ....-e -
This Is another bird oddity. possessing a
bright yellow waistcoat and q perfect BLACK
mask.
This mask sets him apart from all other
forest birds He likes his Maryland and per-
haps is seen more in nearby Maryland COM
nunities than in nearby Virginia.
This one, too. has many popular names, in
GLIDING yellow throated wren, Western yellow
throat black-masked ground warbler. and just
plain ground warbler. .,..
Here again We have popular naming at It's
worst, in "yellow-throated wren, since II is
no wren at all if.':.-
There are many regional varieties OF this
species, ranging across the country to the
Pacific.
There is O salt marsh yellow throat among
the marshes around San Francisco Bay.
The little masked yellow-throat has the
unenviable distinction. among the ANAL birds
of being one that is imposed on by the COW
bird
Others in whose nests the cowbird lays her
eggs are the yellow warbler and the chat but
these often defeat the cowbird by covering
up her egg with another nest Of their own
sometimes as many as three stories high; thai
is, two complete nests over the original one
The poor little yellow-throat mother both
incubates and feeds the young cowbird, just -
IL It were one At her own, not seeming to know
the differences. In doing 80, OF course, she
nexlects her own smaller babies.