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THE YELLOW WARBLER. 



Nest, a compact cup of woven "hemp" and fine grasses, lined heavily with 

 plant-down, grasses, and, occasionally, horse-hair, fastened to upright branch in 

 rose-thickets and the like. Eggs, 4 or 5, white, bluish-, creamy-, or grayish-white, 

 speckled and marked with largish spots of reddish brown, burnt umber, etc., often 

 wreathed about the larger end. Av. size, .70 x .50 (17.8 x 12.7). 



General Range. — North America at large, except southwestern part, giving 

 place to D. ae. rubiginosa in extreme northwest. South in winter to Central 

 America and northern South America. Breeds nearly throughout its North 

 American range. 



Range in Ohio. — Of universal distribution; the most abundant Warbler. 

 Not conspicuous as a passing migrant. 



FEMALE llKOnDING \OUNG 



Photo by R F. Griggs 



THE Summer Warbler's gold is about as common as that of the Dande- 

 lion, but its trim little form has not achieved any such distinctness in the public 

 mind. Most pe(i[)le, if they take note at all of anything so tiny, dub the birds 

 "Wild Canaries," and are done. The name as applied to the Goldfinch may 

 be barely tolerated, but in the case of the Warbler it is quite inappropriate, 

 since the bird has nothing in common with a Canary except littleness and yel- 

 lowness. Its bill is l(inger and slimmer, for it feeds exclusively on insects 

 instead of seeds, and its ])ure yellow plumage knows no admixture, save for 



