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THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 



Photo by Arthur A. Allen 



YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT AND YOUNG 



CONCEDING THE NECESSITY OF A SUCCEEDING GENERATION THE YELLOW-BREASTED 



CHAT VENTURES WITH AN AIR OF SUSPICION WHERE THE ODDS 



ARE IN FAVOR OF THE CAMERA MAN. 



The Yellow-Breasted Chat 



Bird students are generally surprised upon first learning that the 

 elusive Chat, almost as large as a Catbird, is a member of the Warbler 

 family. All extensive families in Nature boast their giants and pygmies 

 and the Chat is the big fellow among the Wood Warblers. 



The Chat almost earns the title of Mockingbird except that his notes 

 are decidedly individual and like unto no other sounds on earth. He is 

 ridiculously funny but studiously inconspicuous. No bird in our varied 

 list of American songsters is more noisy and yet at the same time so ex- 

 tremely difficult to locate. To hear him at his jeerings and whistlings and 

 cacklings and sputterings is a real treat. His phonographic records how- 

 ever are all you may hope to enjoy for he steadily refuses to take his part 

 in the movies. You may hear his restmant voice clearly across the twenty 

 acre bramble patch but to stalk him in his haunts and slip upon him un- 

 awares requires the patience and ingenuity of a Holmes or a Burns or a 

 Pinkerton. 



