YELLOW WARBLER. 



DENDROICA AESTIVA. 



THE yellow warbler is a representative character, 

 and taken all in all, is the most interesting of the 

 warblers. He is beautiful, very active, and of engaging 

 manners. Though he may not equal in brilliancy of color 

 the flashing, blushing redstart, he has a charm of his own 

 as he moves rapidly through the green foliage, singing his 

 lively song. If sometimes in the bright sunlight it is 

 almost too sharp, like the ringing of steel, it is the best 

 of songs by the warblers. The yellow warblers are 

 numerous, haunting the orchard, and the garden in city 

 or country. They come early in May and spend the 

 summer, often raising two families. The cow-bird can- 

 not impose on these merry birds as safely as she can 

 on some others ; for the lady of the house is apt to build 

 a deck over the hateful stranger-egg and fasten it down 

 in the hold to hatch and find its hatchway out as best 

 it may. 



Like the songs of all the warblers, the song of the yel- 

 low warbler is brief and rapid. Though so high, it can be 

 heard many rods : — 



