NATURE STUDY. 
A MONTHLY BULLETIN OF THE 
Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences. 
Vol. I. DECEMBER, 1900 . No. 7 . 
Warblers. 
BY ALBERTA A. MACLEOD. 
Go, some lovely spring day, and listen to the music of the 
woods. There is the breeze, that whispers to us of things that 
lie deeper than words ; the falling of dead twigs ; the wood¬ 
peckers tapping; and the squirrels, that will lead one a long 
chase sometimes when trying to locate a new bird. 
As soon as we are quiet, the birds grow suspicious and begin 
calling one to another. Warblers are not as curious as most 
birds, but the faint “ zees zees ” in the tree-tops will reward you 
and if you are patient there will be enough glimpses of fairy¬ 
like forms to surprise any one who has not tried it. Warblers 
are at once the delight and the despair of field students. They 
are found only in America, and of the one hundred species 
known seventy visit the United States; the remaining thirty 
are tropical. As a rule they are arboreal, but in spring and 
fall visit orchards, ploughed ground, etc. During migration the 
warblers are usually found in companies composed of a num¬ 
ber of species. As the warblers feed exclusively on insects, 
thousands of miles separate their summer and winter homes 
