FAMILY Mniotiltidz. 
with white patches near the tip; eye-ring and a line over 
the eye yellow; lower parts bright cadmium yellow 
throughout; throat, breast, and sides streaked with bright 
burnt sienna or chestnut. Female similarly marked, 
Nest on the ground or near it; usually built of coarse 
grasses lined with finer ones. This bird is common in 
eastern North America and breeds from Nova Scotia 
north to Hudson’s Bay; it migrates southward through 
the Atlantic States, and winters in the south Atlantic 
and Gulf States. 
The song of the Yellow Red-poll is described as a sim- 
ple trill like that of the Chipping Sparrow; but as I have 
always failed to discover the bird in a singing mood, I 
doubt whether his song is very often (in this part of the 
country) placed on the spring program. The colors of 
the Yellow Red-poll are very pretty, though, and his 
migratory visits so very common that I have ventured 
to include him in my list with the hope that at some 
future day he may be found with a voice. The tail is 
incessantly bobbing, so I do not doubt that he can keep 
time, and as wll, perhaps, as a drum-major! 
Prairie This is one of the tiniest and most de- 
ae lightful common Warblers, with a charac- 
ey teristic song which runs up the chromatic 
L.4.75inches scale. Only one other Warbler’s voice is 
May toth like it in this respect, and that belongs 
to the Black-throated Blue. The Prairie Warbler is 
tastefully but not conspicuously dressed. Upper parts 
olive green, with the back considerably spotted with 
burnt sienna or chestnut; wings and tail brownish 
olive; asingle light buff-yellow wing-bar on each wing; 
inner webs of the outer tail feathers white almost to the 
tip; a bar of yellow above, another below the eye; in 
front of and behind the eye black; a broad black stripe 
extends from the corner of the bill across the cheek; the 
yellow sides are conspicuously barred with black; under 
parts light yellow. Female similarly marked, but duller 
in color and with little or no chestnut on the back. 
Nest in briers or other tangled bushes or young cedars in 
partly open ground; it is built of plant fibres and plant 
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