[Citizen Bird by Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues]@TWC D-Link bookCitizen Bird CHAPTER XII 5/20
"He has spent a long time on one twig and he doesn't seem to have cleaned off all the insects yet; he must have pretty good eyes." "Yes, and more than that," said the Doctor, "his eyes magnify much more than ours do, so that all objects appear far larger to a bird than they do to us, and they can see insects that we never notice." "I wonder if that little Warbler thinks spiders are crabs and flies chickens," said Dodo, so soberly that all the others laughed heartily. The Black-and-white Warbler Length five inches. Upper parts striped everywhere with black and white. Under parts white in the middle, with many black stripes on the sides. Has a weak and wheezy voice. From its habit of scrambling about tree-trunks and branches, it may be mistaken for a real Creeper, or a Nuthatch, or even a little Woodpecker. A Summer Citizen of the United States, east of the plains; in winter from Florida southward. A Tree Trapper. THE YELLOW WARBLER (Or SUMMER YELLOWBIRD) "I know this Warbler by sight already," said Dodo; "there is one in the low case in the wonder room--the pretty bird sitting on a fuzzy nest; it looks like a Canary." "You may think that he looks like a Canary at a little distance, but not when you are near by," said the Doctor.
"The Canary has a short, thick, cone-shaped bill suited to cracking seeds, while the Yellow Warbler has the slender bill necessary for prying into small cracks and crannies for insects.
This Warbler also has light rusty streaks on his yellow breast.
Do you remember having ever seen, a Canary with such markings ?" Nat and Dodo thought for a moment, and then said they never had. "It really may not be like a Canary," said Rap, "and it hasn't much of a song, but it has so many cute little ways that it seems like one.
I know a boy who always says it's a wild Canary, but it can't be that, I see.
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