NATURE'S CALENDAR 



June 8 are the chestnut-sided, the hooded, the 



black -throated blue, the caerulean, the 

 prairie warbler, and the redstart. One of 

 the hardest warbler nests to find is that 

 of the blue yellow-back {Panda), which 

 fabricates a home within a mass of the 

 gray moss ( Tillandsia) hanging from dead 

 trees in swampy forests. It is nowhere 

 numerous, and its nest is one of the prizes 

 of the collector's fascinating pursuit. 



Strangely, when one considers the di- 

 minutive size and the delicacy of warblers, 

 many of them make their nests upon or 

 very near to the ground. Thus the Ken- 

 tucky warbler, of southerly range, hides 

 its grass-woven nest at the roots of some 

 brier or other bush in a swampy thicket, 

 just like its northern relative, the Mary- 

 land yellow-throat. Other warblers hid- 

 ing their nests in little nooks among the 

 dead leav^es of the woods and hill-side 

 thickets, sometimes in tiny caves, and 

 sometimes a little elevated among the 

 stems of a low bush, are the Nashville, 

 the worm-eating, the golden-winged, the 



myrtle-bird, the oven-bird (whose nest is 

 neatly covered with a hut of leaves, like a 

 tovvhee's), and its cousin, the long-billed 

 water thrush, which must be looked for 

 along a wooded brook-side. 



Insects, as has already been explained 

 in these pages, usually have only one 

 year of life. The old ones die off for the 

 most part in the fall, leaving eggs, cater- 

 pillars, or chrysalids, that last through 



