MYRTLE WARBLER 213 



ber being found in the United States. In color, Warblers 

 vary from the plainest garb to the most beautiful vari- 

 gated plumage of any of our birds, and are all small in 

 size, measuring on an average about five inches. They 

 are all migratory in their habits, some species nesting on 

 the shores of the Arctic Ocean, others in the northern 

 tier of states bordering Canada, even to the middle cen- 

 tral states, and going, on the southern journey, into Mex- 

 ico and South America. 



In general, Warblers are insect eaters but some 

 like a mixed diet of seeds and berries. A typical example 

 of this family is the Myrtle Warbler. With its graceful, 

 trim figure, its bright, dark brown eyes, and its slatish- 

 blue plumage trimmed with golden yellow on rump, head 

 and sides of breast, this bird possesses, in a marked de- 

 gree, the beauty characteristic of its family. 



