WARBLER, MYRTLE or YELLOW-RUMPED 



The four yellow spots on crown, lower back, and sides 

 are its distinguishing marks; and in the autumn these 

 marks have dwindled to only one, that on the lower back 



or rump. 



Neltje Blanchan. Bird Neighbors.^ 



In loose companies they forage in old fields and scrubby 

 growths among the bayberry or myrtle bushes, which 

 bear their favorite food [whence their name]. 



Chapman. Handbook of Birds.^^ 



Yellow-rumped warblers are in place wherever you 

 find them, and are as much at ease in the depth of the 

 forest as about our garden fences. 



Abbott. Birdland Echoes.^^ 



WARBLER, NASHVILLE 



Its discoverer was first attracted to it by the singular 

 noise which it made, resembling the breaking of small 

 dry twigs, or the striking together of pebbles, for six or 

 seven times in succession, and loud enough to be heard 

 at a distance of thirty or forty yards. 



Nuttairs Ornithology.^^ 



Minot compares the first half of the song to the pene- 

 trating notes of the black and white warbler, and the 

 last half to the twitter of the chipping sparrow. 



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