Green, Greenish Gray, Olive, and Yellowish Olive Birds 
white in outer quills. In autumn, plumage resembling the 
female’s. 
Female—Similar ; chin yellowish ; throat and breast dusky, the 
black being mixed with yellowish. 
Range—Eastern North America, from Hudson Bay to Central 
America and Mexico. Nests north of Illinois and New York. 
Winters in tropics. 
Migrations—May. October. Common summer resident north 
of New Jersey. 
There can be little difficulty in naming a bird so brilliantly 
and distinctly marked as this green, gold, and black warbler, that 
lifts up a few pure, sweet, tender notes, loud enough to attract 
attention when he visits the garden. ‘‘ See-see, see-saw,” he 
sings, but there is a tone of anxiety betrayed in the simple, syl- 
van strain that always seems as if the bird needed reassuring, 
- possibly due to the rising inflection, like an interrogative, of the 
last notes. 
However abundant about our homes during the migrations, 
this warbler, true to the family instinct, retreats to the woods to 
nest—not always so far away as Canada, the nesting ground of 
most warblers, for in many Northern States the bird is commonly 
found throughout the summer. Doubtless it prefers tall ever- 
green trees for its mossy, grassy nest; but it is not always par- 
ticular, so that the tree be a tall one with a convenient fork in an 
upper branch. 
Early in September increased numbers emerge from the 
woods, the plumage of the male being less brilliant than when 
we saw it last, as if the family cares of the summer had proved 
too taxing. For nearly a month longer they hunt incessantly, with 
much flitting about the leaves and twigs at the ends of branches 
in the shrubbery and evergreens, for the tiny insects that the 
warblers must devour by the million during their all too brief visit. 
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