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Manitoba and other north-western portions of the Canadian Dom- 
inion, and some nests have 
been found in ecuiiiona New 
England. 
The chief difference be- 
tween it and the Red Cross- 
bill is that the wings are 
crossed with bars of a white 
WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. color. 
SPARROWS AND WARBLERS. 
BY WILL. N. COLTON, BIDDEFORD, MAINE. 
Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, 
Thy sky is ever clear ; 
Thou hast no sorrow in thy note, 
No winter in thy year. 
— Logan. 
How well this applies to that beautiful fleeting family, Wnzotlide 
the Wood Warblers! Only with us a comparatively short time each 
year, they yet endear themselves, cheering us as no other bird can. 
They do not flit around our door-yards ; but have to be visited in their 
own haunts, the forest and swamp, and here we can see them in un- 
restrained freedom. 
That which is hardest to obtain, we prize most, and it will pay any- 
one for a tiresome tramp, to have the opportunity of watching and 
studying the rarer Warblers, with their gay, restless movements, seldom 
still ten seconds at a time, flitting from twig to twig. The more com- 
mon species are often found in orchards and near to man; but they 
have more subdued tints and of a more timid air than their wilder 
brethren. 
My purpose is especially, to speak of the Blue Yellow-backed 
Warbler, as a good representative of his family. How he ‘‘tweats” 
and warbles his simple lay! ‘here is certainly “no sorrow in his 
