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thickly sprinkled near the great end with specks of pale brown. 
They raise two broods in the season. This little bird, like many 
others, will feign lameness to draw you away from its nest, stretching 
out his neck, spreading and bending down his tail until it trails along 
the branch, and fluttering feebly along to draw you after him; some- 
times looking back to see if you are following him, and returning 
back to repeat the same manceuvres in order to attract your atten- 
tion. The male is most remarkable for this practice.”—WILSON. 
Judged by numbers alone, the “ Myrtle-bird,” or 
Yellow-rumped Warbler, is the type of the whole 
group, as we see it represented in the Delaware 
Valley. A few are here all winter, and however 
Myrtle-bird. 
correct may have been the statement at the time, the 
remark that their spring sojourn is very brief will 
now no longer apply to this vicinity. They come 
in full force in early April, and I have seen many a 
dozen among the willows along the river after the 
middle of May; and a few appear so very early again 
in September that it would not be surprising if they 
were found breeding in the hemlock swamps of 
Northern Pennsylvania, but, of course, these early 
autumn birds may have come from Vermont or New 
Hampshire. 
A conspicuously colored and unwarbler-like war- 
