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Genus Anthus. Titlark. Winter resident, frequent,•. gregarious; insectivorous ; mostly affects plowed and bare fields on the margin of waters where it seeks various insects, seeds, etc.
Genus Mniotilla. Black and white creeper. Migratory, frequent; insectivorous. It lives principally on small ants and their larvae, which it mostly gleans from the rough bark of orchard and forest trees.
Genus. Parula. Blue yellow-backed warbler. Migra tory, frequent; insectivorous; somewhat of a creeper; very active and useful in destroying small insects during the opeuing bloom of spring.
Genus Protonotaria. Prothonotary warbler. Summer resident, extremely rare; insectivorous ; feeds on small insects, worms, caterpillars, etc.
Genus Geothlyois. Marylaurl yellow throat. Summer resident, frequent; insectivorous. Lives secluded in thickets and course tangled grass near streams where it ,feeds ou small insects. Caterpillars and s form its inductee' food.—Mournirg warbler. Summer resident„ extremely i are; insectivorous; habits resemble the former.
Genus Oporornis. Connecticut wsrhler. Migratory, very rare; insect i% orqus. Auduhon saw them chasing species of spider which runs nimbly over the water, and which they caught by gliding over it.—Micheneee war bler. Migratory, very rare; insectivorous; affect- mar gins of woods, thickets, and old fences; keeps near the ground when seeking insects. — Kentucky warbler. Migratory, very north of Maryland; insectivorous. This species destroy great numbers ot spiders. All the species are active insect hunters, and affect the woods and neighboring fields, orchards, and gardens.
Irterta. Yellow-breasted chat. Sammerresident, frequent; insectivorous; affects thickets, near water, and feeds on shelly-winged beetles, sometimes on berries and seeds.
Genus/Idea/therm. Worm-eating warbler. Migratory, or very rare In summer; insectivorous. They are very active and indefatigable insect hunters.
Genus Hettraintleophaga. Blue-winged yellow warbler. Summer resident; rare, and very secluded? insectivorous. They teed ou tee eggs and larva of various insects, as well as flies, caterpillarte, ants, and coleoptera.—Gulden-winged warbler. Migratory, quite rare; insectivorous. This scarce bird is only seen_in spring, when it frequent, the tops of forest trees, add collects its food among the ldat es and branches.- Nashville warbler. Summer resident, very rare,• insectivorous. Its food consists of insects and larva, which it procures by searching actively and dili gently among the leaves and buds of low trees.—Tennessee warbler. llligrutory, very rare; inset•ivorous; an expert catcher of flies.
Genus Seturete. Golden-crowned thrush. Summer resident, common in woods; insectivorous. Feeds wholly on insects and their lame. particularly small coleopterous kiuds, and ants collected on the grolind.—Water thrush. Migratory, fregueni in marshy thicketsi insectivorous. Fee ,s ..n such insects and th it !arm as inhabit marshy localities.-,—Large-billed water thrush. Migratory, more rare than the last; insectivorous. Very choicely resembles the preceding species In appearance aud habits. Genus Deed, oiea. Black-throated green warbler. Mi grate y, rather rare; insectivorous. May be occasionally seen for an hour at u time carefully and actively searching for small caterpillars and winged insects amidst the white blossoms of tan shady apple tree. —Black-Unmated blue
warbler. Migratory, rare; insectivorous. An expert catcher of film—Yellow-ramped warbler. Migratory, abundant; insectiv 'roue. Feeds on Insects, etc.; is expert in catchiug flies, and is a great devourer of cater, pillars.—Blackhurnian warbler, Migratory, rather rare; insectivorous. An exceediugly nimble insect-hunter, keeping toward the tops of trees.—Bay-breasted warbler. quite rare; insectivorous. Sometimes seen search ug for insects along fences, etc.—,Chestnut-sided warb.er. Migratory, frequent; insectivorous. In the spring. they are generally restless, and intently engaged in toe claa-e or insects amidst the blossoms and teuder leaves.—Blue warbler. Migratory, quite rare ; insectiv orous. Feeds principally on ineects and the r larvae Black-poll warbler. Migratory, frequent; insectivorous. An active fly-catcher. —Yellow warbler. Summer resi dent, frequent; insectivorous. Feeds on the smaller insects, and a variety of small larvae and caterpillars.— uttatl remarks : It is amusing to observe the sagacity of this little bird in disposing of the egg of the vagrant cow troopial (genus oassiodit). The egg being depoeited before the laying of the rightful tenant, and too large for eject ment. it is ingeniously incarcerated In the bottom of the nest, and a new lining placed above it, so that it is never ha died, to prove the dragon of the brood.—Black end yellow warbler. Migratory, common; insectivorous. Very act ire in searching for titeir insect and larvae food.— Cape May warbler. Migratory, extremely rare; insectiv orous. Feeds on insect food, but its habits are little known.—Yellow red-poll warbler. Mgratory, rare iu swampy thickets; insectivorous. Industrious insect eater.— rains warbler. Migratory, rare: found in open Woods; insectivorous. ,Feeds caterpillars and flies. Genus .11,,io nodes. Hooded er. Summer resi dent; very rare so far north, iueectivorous. It flies swiftly after its insect prey, secumg the greater part of It on the w.ng.—Green Black-capped warbler. Summer resident, very rare ;Insectivorous. It has nil the habits of a tree fly-catcher, feeding on small insects, which it catches eutirely on the wiog.—Canada warbler. Migra to y, or summer r sident, frequent; insectivorous. A truly insect catch'. g •pecles. Audubon says: 1 found it breed ing in the pine forest.
Genus Se American redstart. Migratory, common in dens.• woods; insectivorous- He is no pen sioner on the bounty of man. He does not wait the acci dental approach of his insect prey, bur, carrying t .e war among them, he is seen flitting from bough to bough, or at times pursuing the flying troop of insects from the top of the tallest tree, in a • zig-zag, hawk-like manner to the ground.
Genus Pyrtnga. Scarlet tanager. Summer resident, frequent in woods; omnivorous. Its food consists chiefly of winged insects, wasps, hornets, and wild bee., as well as smaller kind• of beetles. and other shelly tribes. ' He rarely visits the o chard and tastes the early and inviting. though forbidden cherries.—Summer redbird. Summer resident, rare; omnivorous. Habits very similar. Both species become more fructivoromo in tratuilitn.