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OUR SOUTHERN BIRDS 



PALM WARBLER 



Length 5% inches 



them is during the spring migration, when they 

 travel through the Southeastern states in strag- 

 gling flocks made up of several species, flitting 

 through woods and orchards from tree to tree — ■ 



such tiny wings to pass, 

 even by stages, the thou- 

 sands of miles that some- 

 times lie between their 

 summer and winter homes. 

 At this time they may be 

 seen in the trees of lawns 

 and dooryards, but later in 

 the season they retire to the 

 woods pretty generally. 

 The Yellow Warbler is 

 an exception, preferring orchard trees, brushy 

 brooks, and quiet gardens, where he is frequently 

 mistaken for an escaped Canary, though his only 

 song is a happy "wee- 

 chee, chee, chee, che wee." 

 The nest of this live 

 sunbeam is made of fine 

 grass and fibres lined with 

 thistledown; the eggs are 

 thickly speckled. 



This one, and the Palm and Prairie Warblers, 

 are three "wood" warblers that are rarely found 

 in the woods. The Prairie Warbler frequents 

 bushy clearings, or old fields grown up in young 



PRAIRIE WARBLER 

 Length 4% inches 



