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air, with his legs and wings and tail let loose, while 

 his mate is quietly house-keeping in some thick bush 

 near by. The nest is something like a Catbird's, not 

 very tidy outside, but snug inside, and easy to find if 

 you look in the right place. If you find it at the right 

 time you will see that it holds four or five well-rounded 

 eggs of a crystal-white color, with plenty of bright 

 reddish-brown spots all over them." 



The Yellow-breasted Chat 



Length seven and a half inches — much more than any otlier 

 Warbler measures. 



Upper parts bright olive-green, even all over. 



Lower parts very bright yellow on the throat, breast, and wing- 

 linings, but the belly pure w^hite. 



A strong dark-colored beak, with some dark and light marks 

 between it and the eyes. 



A Summer Citizen of the United States east of the plains and 

 south of Ontario and Minnesota ; travels far south in winter. 

 When he is found west of the plains his tail is somewhat longer, 

 and he is called the Long-tailed Chat. 



Chiefly a Tree Trapper, but also a Seed Sower. 



THE AMERICAN REDSTART 



" The Redstart is the dancing Warbler, just as the 

 Chat is the joker. He never flies along in a sober, 

 earnest fashion, as if his business was of real impor- 

 tance. When on the ground he skips and hops, then 

 takes a few short steps and a little dance backward. 

 In the trees, where he also feeds and where in some 

 crotch he lashes his pretty^ nest of leaf-stalks, moss, 

 and horse-hair, he moves about as suddenly as can be 

 imagined, and he has a way of flying up and back- 



