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Geneva Lake. Late one April there came a wind- 

 storm from the northwest, and the next morning the 

 hiwn was strewn with the bodies of hundreds of little 

 Warblers who had become confused in the darkness and 

 unable to reach shelter. 



" You see how many troubles and risks Citizen Bird 

 has to endure at best, so that we House People should 

 do everj^thing we can to protect him and make his life 

 among us happy. 



" You will have more use for your eyes than your 

 ears, in naming the Warblers. Their plumage is al- 

 most always striking, but their voices are rather lisping 

 than musical, though they sing pretty little snatches 

 in the woods ; but many of their call-notes sound more 

 like the squeaks and buzzings of insects and tree-toads 

 than like the voices of birds, and it will take time and 

 practice before you can distinguish them apart. I have 

 chosen only half a dozen species to tell you of, from 

 the half-hundred that rove about the United States. 

 The first, and one that you are the most likely to see, 

 is the Black-and-white Warbler." 



THE BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER 



" There are exceptions to everything," said the Doc- 

 tor, as he pointed to an old willow tree on the edge of 

 the river Avoods, where he had taken the children to 

 look for Warblers. " And the exception among the 

 shy Warblers of these woods is that sociable little black- 

 and-white fellow over there, who is creeping and swing- 

 ing about the branches as if he Avas own brother to the 

 Brown Creeper himself. This Black-and-white War- 



