THE SUMMER WARBLER. 
DENDRCGE:CA ALSTIVA, (GM.) BAIRD. 
PLATE 1v.—MALE aND FEMALE. 
PRING opens wide the gates of her 
teeming aviary for the egress of a 
no more familiar or confiding bird - 
than the subject of the present 
sketch. Named for the warm- 
blooded sister of the seasons who 
succeeds her, the Summer Warbler 
comes to us upon the laggard train 
of her vivifying skirts, seldom later 
than the first days of the month of 
May. On special occasions, how- 
ORIGINAL INITIAL. 
ever, when her frigid brother has retired and yielded up his crystal 
scepter before her redolent breath earlier than his usual wont, this 
cheerful bird may be heard giving vent to his sweet refrain in the elder 
days of April. 
In this, the vernal period of the year, when the young leaves are 
striving to burst the barriers of their scaly capsules, and laboring hard 
for freedom and the light that they may anon subdue with grateful 
shade the glinting shafts of a searching sun, the restless and symmetrical 
