YELLOW WARBLERS 



[Dendroica (estiva) 



THE summer range of the yellow 

 warbler, or wild canary as this pretty 

 songster is popularly known, extends 

 from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts, ascend- 

 ing in the Wasatch Mountains, where the ac- 

 companying photographs were taken, to an 

 elevation probably considerably over eight 

 thousand feet. Having travelled two thousand 

 miles or more from our Eastern home, here we 

 have the delight of meeting this bright yellow 

 friend of ours, with his duller mate, slightly 

 streaked on the breast with orange. At these 

 high altitudes, the warblers usually start nest- 

 ing about the middle of June. I found them 

 building in general in the willows along the 



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