PROTHONOTARY YELLOW WARBLERS. 



Quite a l()ii<^* name for such 

 small birds — don't you think so? 

 You will have to get your teacher 

 to repeat it several times, I fear, 

 before you learn it. 



These little yellow warblers 

 are just as happy as the pair of 

 wrens I showed you in April 

 '' Birds." In fact, I suspect they 

 are even happier, for their nest 

 has been made and the eggs laid. 

 What do you think of their 

 house? Sometimes they find an 

 old hole in a stump, one that a 

 woodpecker has left, perhaps, 

 and there build a nest. This 

 year they have found a very 

 pretty place to begin their house- 

 keeping. AYhat kind of tree is 

 it? I thought I would show 

 only the part of the tree that 

 makes their home. I just be- 

 lieve some boy or girl who loves 

 birds made those holes for them. 

 Don't you think so? They have 



an upstairs and a down stairs, it 

 seems. 



Like the Wrens I wrote about 

 last month, they prefer to live in 

 swampy land and along rivers. 

 They nearly always find a hole 

 in a decayed willow tree for their 

 nest — low down. This isn't a 

 willow tree, though. 



Whenever I show you a pair 

 of birds, always pick out the 

 father and the mother bird. You 

 will usually find that one has 

 more color than the other. 

 Which one is it? Maybe you 

 know why this is. If you don't 

 I am sui'e your teacher can tell 

 you. Don't you remember in the 

 Bobolink family how differently 

 Mr. and Mrs. Bobolink were 

 dressed? 



I think most of you will agree 

 with me when I say this is one 

 of the prettiest pictures you ever 

 saw. 



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