168 WARBLERS. 



eggs speckled with reddish brown, chiefly at the larger 

 end. 



The Yellow Warbler is also a summer resident, arriv- 

 ing in the spring about April 30 and remaining, with 

 the Black-and-white Warbler, until late 

 Yellow Warbler, ^ September< It has the general ap- 



JJenaroica cestova. * 



pearance of being an entirely yellow 

 bird, and is sometimes called " Wild Canary," but it has 

 a much more slender bill than the Canary, and its breast 

 is spotted with reddish brown. Most Warblers are wood- 

 inhabiting birds, but the Yellow Warbler, unlike its rela- 

 tives, prefers lawns, parks, and orchards to woodlands. 

 Its nest, of fine grasses, fibers, and a large amount of cot- 

 tony plant-down, is placed in shrubbery or shade trees. 

 Its eggs are bluish white, thickly marked with cinnamon 

 and olive-brown. 



The Black-throated Green Warbler nests in pine for- 

 ests from southern New England northward, arriving 

 Bl k throated from the South about May 1 and re- 



Green Warbler, maining until October. Its nest is 

 Dendroica virens. usually placed in pine trees; its eggs 

 Plate LXI. are w hite ? spotted and speckled with 

 dark brown. 



The songs of many Warblers are possessed of so little 

 character that the best description conveys no idea of 

 them, but the quaint zee-see, see-ee, zee of the Black- 

 throated Green, which Mr. Burroughs writes v > 



will be readily recognized. 



The Myrtle or Yellow-rumped Warbler nests from 



northern New England northward, and in winter is the 



Myrtle Warbler on ty Warbler to remain in the North- 



Dendroica coronata. ern States, being often found as far 



Plate LXI. north as New York city, when its 



favorite food of bayberries can be procured. At this 



season there is little or no black on the breast and the 



