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American Birds 



delicately formed. The bird is often beautifully colored, quick and 

 active, flitting incessantly among the leaves. 



Yellow Warbler {Dendroica astiva), Summer Yellow-bird: Male, 

 above, rich yellow, brightening on rump; breast and under parts golden 

 yellow; breast streaked with brown. Female, less brightly colored. 

 Our commonest warbler living throughout North America at large, 

 arriving from the South in May and remaining till September. Nest, 

 a small, well-rounded cup in the fork of a bush or tree. Eggs, four or 

 five, grayish-white, spotted with lilac or red-brown. 



Some of the other common warblers that may be found living 

 throughout the eastern states are the Black and White Warbler, striped 

 above with the colors for which it is named, and having a white breast. 

 Blue-winged Warbler, with slatish-blue wings and white bars, forehead 

 and under parts yellow, with dark stripe through eye. Nashville War- 

 bler, yellow below, above, olive-green, brightening on rump and shoul- 

 ders, slate-gray head and neck. Parula Warbler, above slate-blue, chin 

 and throat yellow, vrings brownish with two white bars, white belly with 

 red-brown band across breast. Myrtle Warbler, slate color, striped and 

 streaked with black; crown, sides of breast and rump yellow, white 

 throat, upper breast black and whitish below, white bars on wings and 

 white spots on tail. Chestnut-sided Warbler, throat and breast white 

 with chestnut stripe extending down sides, top of head yellow, black stripe 

 running through eye and black spot in front. Black-poll Warbler, black 

 cap, upper parts striped with black, olive, and gray, breast white with 

 black streaks, white spots on outer tail feathers. Blackbumian Warbler, 

 crown black with orange patch, black wings and tail with white mark- 

 ings, throat brilliant yellow, rest of under parts pale yellowish. Black- 

 throated Green Warbler, crown and back olive-yellow, sides of head 

 clear yellow, throat and upper breast black and black stripe down sides, 

 lower parts yellowish-white, wings and tail brownish with white wing- 

 bars. American Redstart, upper parts blue-black, white belly, sides of 

 body and lining of wings orange, tail feathers half orange and half 

 black. 



On the Pacific Coast the Black-throated Gray Warbler has the 

 head, throat, and chest black except for white streaks on side of head 

 and along throat; yellow dot in front of eye; breast and belly pure white; 



