114 Birds of Oregon and Washington 



and such an enemy of the deadhest foe of shade 

 and fruit trees — the canker-worm — because the 

 bird does sometimes take a share of the fruit 

 that it helps to raise ? 



Particular Description. — Male : Above, grayish- 

 brown, varying with plum-colored tints to ashy ; black 

 forehead ; chin, black ; breast, lighter than back ; ab- 

 domen, yellowish ; under tail-coverts, white ; yellow tips 

 on tail. 



Female : Duller plumage, smaller crest and narrower 

 yellow band on tail. 



Mostly a summer resident. 



THE WARBLERS. 



Two of this family, the Audubon's Warbler 

 and the Pacific Yellow-throat, have already been 

 described, because they come so early to our 

 latitude, and so certain are they to be the first 

 to attract attention. There are others of this 

 family which we must recognize, some of which 

 are very abundant though arriving later in our 

 neighborhoods. 



No one can tell just why the Warblers are 

 called Warblers ; they do not many of them (and 

 they are a large family) warble in song more 



