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and the flame color plain yellow ; but her manners 

 are so graceful and her looks so sweet and inno- 

 cent, one does not wonder that a duel is sometimes 

 fought on her account. Ladies in the human 

 world not half so handsome have caused bitter 

 feuds among male competitors for their hands. 



A still more strikinglj^ colored bird is the black- 

 throated green warbler, a perfect chorus of hues. 

 Imagine, if you can, a lithe, feathered sprite, about 

 five inches in length, his back and crown a bright 

 yellow-olive, his forehead, a superciliary stripe, and 

 the sides of the head a rich yellow, while a dark 

 olive line runs back through the eye ; then his en- 

 tire throat and breast are jet black, and his sides 

 streaked with the same ; his dusky wings have two 

 white bars and his outer tail feathers are edged 

 with white. He is elegant beyond compare, a per- 

 fect brilliant in the bird world. I wish some 

 artist with a deft brush would paint him for my 

 readers in all his variegated splendor. Surely 

 nature in this instance is lavish of her tints. 



In marked contrast with the gorgeous array of 

 colors in this bird, are the plain black and white of 

 the creeping warbler. The colors are arranged in 

 stripes or bars everywhere except on the belly. I 

 first saw him gliding up and down the bole of a 



