YELLOW WARBLER 



Called also: Summer Yellowbird; Wild Canary. 



RATHER than live where the skies are g?^ 

 and the air is cold, this adventurous little 

 warbler will travel two thousand miles or more to 

 follow the sun. A trip from Panama to Canada 

 and back again within five months does not 

 appal him. By living in perpettial sunshine 

 his feathers seemed to have absorbed some of ft, 

 so that he looks like a stray simbeam pla5ring 

 among the shrubbery on the lawn, the trees in 

 the orchard, the bushes in the roadside thicket, 

 the willows and alders beside the stream. Ke 

 is shorter than the English sparrow by an inch. 

 Although you may not get close enough to see 

 that his yellow breast is finely streaked with 

 reddish brown, you may know by these marks 

 that he is not what you at first suspected he 

 was — somebody's pet canary escaped from a 

 cage. It is not he but the goldfinch — the 

 yellow bird with the black wings — who sin§^ 

 like a canary. Happily he is so neighbourly 

 that every child may easily become acquainted 

 with this most common member of the larg^ 



warbler family. 



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