228 WARBLERS. 



eggs speckled witli reddish brown, chiefly at the larger 

 end. 



The Yellow AVarbler is also a summer resident, arriv- 

 ing in the spring about Aj^ril 30 and remaining, with 



the Black-and-white Warbler, until late 

 YeUow Warbler, .^^ September. It has the general ap- 



pearance of being an entirely yellow 

 bird, and is sometimes called " Wild Canary," but it has 

 a much more slender bill than the Canary, and its breast 

 is spotted with reddish brown. Most Warblers are wood- 

 inhabiting birds, but the Yellow Warbler, unlike its rela- 

 tives, prefers lawns, parks, and orchards to woodlands. 

 Its nest, of fine grasses, fibers, and a large amount of cot- 

 tony plant-down, is placed in shrubbery or shade trees. 

 Its eggs are bluish white, thickly marked with cinnamon 

 and olive-brown. 



The Black-throated Green Warbler nests in pine for- 

 ests from southern Xew England northward, arriving 



^, , ^^ ^ ^ from the South about May 1 and re- 



Black-throated . -t r\ i t 



Green Warbler niainmg until October. Its nest is 



Dendroica vinns. usually placed ill piiic trccs ; its eggs 

 Plate LXi. ^j,g white, spotted and speckled with 



dark brown. 



The songs of many Warblers are possessed of so little 

 character that the best description conveys no idea of 

 them, but the quaint zee-zee^ zee-ee^ zee of the Black- 

 throated Green, which Mr. Burroughs writes v — , 



will be readily recognized. 



The Myrtle or Yellow-rumped Warbler nests from 

 northern Xew England northward, and in winter is the 

 Myrtle Warbler, ^iily Warbler to remain in the Xorth- 

 Dendroica coronata. em States, being often found as far 

 Plate LXI. north as JS'ew York city, when its 



favorite food of bay berries can be procured. At this 

 season there is little or no black on the breast and the 



