YELLOW WARBLER. 
DENDROICA AESTIVA. 
HE yellow warbler is a representative character, 
and taken all in all, is the most interesting of the 
warblers. He is beautiful, very active, and of engaging 
manners. Though he may not equal in brilliancy of color 
the flashing, blushing redstart, he has a charm of his own 
as he moves rapidly through the green foliage, singing his 
lively song. If sometimes in the bright sunlight it is 
almost too sharp, like the ringing of steel, it is the best 
of songs by the warblers. The yellow warblers are 
numerous, haunting the orchard, and the garden in city 
or country. They come early in May and spend the 
summer, often raising two families. The cow-bird can- 
not impose on these merry birds as safely as she can 
on some others; for the lady of the house is apt to build 
a deck over the hateful stranger-egg and fasten it down 
in the hold to hatch and find its hatchway out as best 
it may. 
Like the songs of all the warblers, the song of the yel- 
low warbler is brief and rapid. Though so high, it can be 
heard many rods: — 
