Birds - Blackburnian Warbler ( Originally Published 1904 )
(Dendroica blackburnice) Wood Warbler family Called also:
HEMLOCK WARBLER ; ORANGE-THROATED WARBLER; TORCH-BIRD Length—4.5
to 5.5 inches. An inch and a half smaller than the English
sparrow. Male—Head black, striped with orange-flame ; throat and
breast orange, shading through yellow to white underneath ;
wings, tail, and part of back black, with white markings.
Female—Olive-brown above, shading into yellow on breast, and
paler under parts. Range—Eastern North America to plains.
Winters in tropics. Migrations—May. September. Spring and autumn
migrant. "The orange-throated warbler would seem to be his right
name, his characteristic cognomen," says John Burroughs, in ever
delightful "Wake Robin" ; "but no, he is doomed to wear the name
of some discoverer, perhaps the first who robbed his nest or
rifled him of his mate — Blackburn ; hence, Blackburnian
warbler. The burn seems appropriate enough, for in these dark
evergreens his throat and breast show lik