BIRD BIOGRAPHIES 



Habitat: Fields and roadsides; feeds chiefly on the ground 

 and among low bushes. 



Range: Atlantic Slope of North America. Breeds in south- 

 eastern Canada and Maine; winters from Louisiana 

 to northern Florida; casually to North Carolina and 

 Pennsylvania. The palm warbler is the western 

 species, an inhabitant of the Mississippi Valley and 

 the region eastward. It is very common in Florida, 

 where it may be discovered in company with yellow 

 Palm Warblers. 



THIS lively little warbler, with its nervous habit of 

 tipping up its tail incessantly like a spotted sand- 

 piper, resembles its near relative the yellow warbler in a 

 few respects. The olive-green upper parts and yellow 

 breast streaked with brown are points of resemblances, 

 but the chestnut crown and yellow line over the eye are 

 differences. Neither yellow warblers nor yellow palm 

 warblers are dwellers in the woods, but prefer to live near 

 the haunts of man. Yellow warblers are seen in trees 

 and bushes, while the palm warblers are found by road- 

 sides, often on the ground in the stubble of pastures, out in 

 the open. While subdued in color and therefore incon- 

 spicuous, they are readily identified ;by the habit of mov- 

 ing their tails. 



GROUP SIX— BLUE OR BLUE AND YELLOW 



WARBLERS 



1. THE CERULEAN WARBLER 



Length: About 4V2 inches; one of the smaller warblers. 

 Male: Upper parts bright blue; head and back streaked with 

 black; light streak above eye; white throat, breast, 



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