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 80 and remaining, with 
the Black-and-white Warbler, until late 
Yellow Wartie in September. At has the general ap- 
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 
from the South about May 1 and re- 
Brag ingen maining until October. Its nest is 
Dendroica virens. usually placed in pine trees; its eggs 
PlateLXI. = are white, 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-zee, zee-ce, zee of the Black- 
throated Green, which Mr. Burroughs writes — — y — 
will be readily recognized. 
The Myrtle or Yellow-rumped ‘Warbler nests from 
northern New England northward, and in winter is the 
Myrtle Warbler, only Warbler to remain in the North- 
Dendroica coronata. €IYN States, being often found as far 
Einte Lt, 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 
