BIRDS IN A CITY 171 



and-white creeping warblers, and one other to be 

 mentioned later. 



Injurious insects find their doom when the 

 young house and Carolina wrens are on the wing. 

 Catbirds and robins are among the most abundant 

 breeders, while chickadees and white-breasted 

 nuthatches are less often seen. The bluebird 

 haunts the hollow apple trees, and of the thrushes 

 proper the veery or Wilson's and the splendid 

 wood thrush sing to their mates on the nests 

 among the saplings. 



The rarest of all the birds which I have found 

 nesting in the Park is a little yellow and green 

 warbler, with a black throat and sides of the face, 

 known as the Lawrence warbler. Only a few of 

 his kind have ever been seen, and strange to say 

 his mate was none other than a demure blue- 

 winged warbler. His nest was on the ground and 

 from it six young birds flew to safety and not to 

 museum drawers. 



