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YELLOW WARBLER 



Fall Migration. The Yellow Warbler begins its southward mi- 

 gration among the very earliest of the family, and fall migrants have 

 been noted in central Florida July 20 and at Key West July 26. So 

 rapid is the southward journey that the arrival of the first in the 

 fall has been noted in southeastern Nicaragua August 9, 1892 ; San 

 Jose, Costa Rica, Aug. 25, 1889, and Aug. 24, 1890; Bonda, Colombia, 

 August 27, 1898. 



The Bird and its Haunts. The Yellow Warbler is a bit of 

 feathered sunshine. In his plumes dwells the gold of the sun, in his 

 voice its brightness and good cheer. We have not to seek him in the 

 depths of the forest, the haunt of nearly all his congeners, he comes 

 to us and makes his home near ours. And so because of his beauty 

 and sociability, the Yellow Warbler has become the best known mem- 

 ber of his family. Known, indeed, to many who are not aware that 

 he has a large number of near relatives some of whom are even more 

 attractive. 



The habit of nesting in fruit and shade trees and lawn or garden 

 shrubbery is, of course, of recent origin, and the bird is by no means 

 so abundant in growth of this type as it is in willows near water, 

 where the Yellow Warbler seems as much a part of the tree as its 

 own foliage. In smaller numbers it frequents also other open growths 



