156 THE BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER. 
the rising sun the brightest is Prometheus, the torch-bearer. Like a beacon 
light his glowing breast sends a quick answering flash to the first greeting 
of the eastern majesty, and drunk with joy, the tiny spark moves off to 
set the woods on fire. When his back is turned you lose him in the upper 
green, but once around and flash! flash! come swift messages of beauty from 
this divinely fashioned heliograph. 
It is enough! You know him now. For the rest the Blackburnian 
Warbler hops about, and flits, and snatches bugs like other birds. Like 
Taken near Oberlin. © Photo by the Author. 
THE OLD SOUTH WOODS—WARBLER CORNER. 
many others he too, alas! passes far north to breed, quenching his flame for 
the season in the bosom of some gloomy hemlock. During the spring mi- 
grations the brightest males are among the middle early comers, but the 
paler females, and the youths with breasts unfired, abound from the middle 
to the twentieth of May, and linger in rare instances until the end of that 
month. ‘The fall movement begins about the twentieth of August and lasts 
through September. The summer nesting of this species is unusually suc- 
cessful, to judge from the augmented numbers which appear during the fall 
migrations. 
