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YELLOW WARBLER 



Fall Migration. — The Yellow Warbler begins its southward mi- 

 gration among the very earliest of the family, and fall migrants have 

 been noted in central Florida July 20 and at Key West July 26. So 

 rapid is the southward journey that the arrival of the first in the 

 fall has been noted in southeastern Nicaragua August 9, 1892; San 

 Jose, Costa Rica, Aug. 25, 1889, and Aug. 24, 1890; Bonda, Colombia, 

 August 27, 1898. 



PLACE 



No. of 

 years' 

 record 



Average date of 

 last one seen 



I^atest date of 

 last one seen 



Newport, Ore 



Berkeley, Cal 



Great Falls, Mont 



Latitude 64°, Mackenzie 



Aweme, Manitoba 



Lanesboro, Minn 



Ottawa, Ontario 



Southern Ontario 



Glen EUyn, 111 



Wauseon, Ohio 



North River, Prince Edward Island 



St. John, New Brunswick 



Montreal, Can 



Lewiston, Me 



Renovo, Pa 



Beaver, Pa 



Washington, D. C 



Raleigh, N. C 



St. Louis, Mo 



Onaga, Kans 



Bonham, Tex 



New Orleans, La 



3 



4 

 5 

 9 

 2 



9 

 2 



6 

 4 

 5 

 3 



October 5 



September 3 

 August 14 

 August 20 

 August 23 

 September 5 

 September 15 

 August 21 



August 26 

 September i 

 September 6 

 August 27 



September 18, 1900 



October 9, 1888 



September 13, 1889 

 August ID, 1903 



September 10, 1889 



September 7, 1901 



September s, 1902 



September 6, 1899 



September 26, 1891 



September 

 September 

 September 

 September 

 September 

 September 

 August 28, 

 September 

 August 24, 

 September 

 October 27, 



2, 1890 



3, 1890 

 5, 1898 



17, 1894 

 30, 1888 

 28, 1890 



1888 



3, 1896 



1894 

 12, 1889 

 1893 



The Bird and its Haunts. — The Yellow Warbler is a bit of 

 feathered sunshine. In his plumes dwells the gold of the sun, in his 

 voice its brightness and good cheer. We have not to seek him in the 

 depths of the forest, the haunt of nearly all his: congeners, he comes 

 to us and makes his home near ours. And so because of his beauty 

 and sociability, the Yellow Warbler has become the best known mem- 

 ber of his family. Known, indeed, to many who are not aware that 

 he has a large number of near relatives some of whom are even more 

 attractive. 



The habit of nesting in fruit and shade trees and lawn or garden 

 shrubbery is, of course, of recent origin, and the bird is by no means 

 so abundant in growth of this type as it is in willows near water, 

 where the Yellow Warbler seems as much a part of the tree as its 

 own foliage. In smaller numbers it frequents also other open growths 



