THE CHESTNUT - SIDED WARBLER 



years no chestnut-sided warbler has succeeded 

 in preempting the claim. 



The chestnut-sided warbler is so conspicu- 

 ously marked that a mere tyro in bird study 

 cannot mistake it for any other member of 

 the warbler family. The bright yellow crown, 

 pure white under parts, and chestnut sides of 

 the old birds are marks not to be mistaken. 

 The young birds are yellowish green above 

 and silky white below. 



An amusing thing happened here some 

 years ago over a bird of this species. A lady 

 caller, a summer resident, asked me for the- 

 name of a bird which often visited a tree over 

 her sitting-room window. She claimed that 

 the bird was pure white with red wings. I 

 could not make her understand that there was 

 no such bird in New England. " Seeing is 

 believing," she exclaimed, and I was invited 

 to investigate for myself. While looking 

 from the sitting-room window I saw the bird 

 above my head on a twig. Sure enough, he 

 was a white bird with red wings. It was a 

 chestnut-sided warbler. From a distance the 

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