BY THE WAYSIDE 
5 
SCHOOL BRANCH DEPARTMENT 
Etfery Wisconsin School Branch is required to subscribe for at least one copy of BY THE WAYSIDE 
Letters for this department should be written on only 
one side of the page, should give the name, age and ad¬ 
dress of the writer, and should be mailed by the first of 
the month; Illinois children sending to Miss Juliet 
Goodrich, 10 Astor St,, Chicago, Ill., and Wisconsin 
children to Miss Kuth Marshall, Appleton, Wis. An 
honor badge will be awarded for each state every month 
preference being giveu to letters about the bird study 
for the month (which is always on this page) and to or¬ 
iginal observations. Any child who wins the honor 
badge twice will receive By The Way Ride one year as a 
prize. 
The wren button, which is the badge of the Audubon 
Society, costs two cents, and may be bought from Miss 
Goodrich or Miss Marshall, 
Any Wisconsin School Branch may, without expense, 
have the use of the Gordon and Merrill Libraries of bird 
books, by applying to Miss Edna Edwards. Librarian, 
846 Prospect St.. Appleton. 
A set of colored bird slides with a typewriter lecture 
may be rented from Prof. W. S. Marshall, 114 E. Gorham 
Street. Madison, W T is. 
Illinois Schools, may use. without expense, a library 
or a lecture with lantern slides, by applying to Mrs. 
Ruthveu Deane, 5U4 N. State St., Chicago. 
Fifteen Common Warblers. 
Descriptions are ol adult males only, 
and the dates of average arrival are those 
given by Professor W. W. Cooke in his 
.compilation on the migration of warblers, 
appearing at present in Bird Lore . 
BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER 
Length, 5.3. Above streaked black 
and white 5 throat black, or black and 
white: belly white; sides streaked black 
and white. (“Color key to North Amer¬ 
ican Birds” bv Chapman and Reed.) 
NASHVILLE WARBLER 
L., 4.8. Olive-green; head and neck 
bluish gray; indistinct brown patch on 
crown; bright yellow below / white eye-ring. 
(“Wild Birds in City Parks” by H. E. 
and A. H. Walter.) Average date of 
spring arrival in Chicago, May 3. 
CAPE MAY WARBLER 
L., 5.1. Ear-coverts and wash on 
throat chestnut; crown blackish; back 
olive-green with black spots; below yellow 
streaked with block; wing-coverts broadly 
white * * * (Chapman and Reed.) Date 
of arrival in Chicago, May 6 ; Southern 
Wisconsin, May 11* 
YELLOW WARBLER 
L., 5.1. Inner vanes of tail feathers 
yellow; crown yellow, shading to greenish 
on back; below yellow streaked with red¬ 
dish brown. Date of arrival in Morgan 
Park, Ill., May 1; Rockford, Ill., May 8 ; 
Southern Wisconsin, May 6 . 
BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER 
L., 5.2. A white patch or spot at base 
of primaries (wing quills); grayish blue 
above; face, throat and sides black; rest 
of under parts white. 
MYRTLE WARBLER 
L., 5.6. Crown, sides of breast and 
rump yellow; above blue gray streaked 
with black; throat white, breast largely 
black; two white wing bars, outer tail 
feathers with white. (Reed and Chap¬ 
man.) Date of arrival, in Chicago, April 
16; Rockford, Ill., April 15; Milwaukee, 
Wis., April 18; Central Wisconsin, April 
19. 
MAGNOLIA WARBLER 
L., 5.1. Rump yellow; seen from be¬ 
low a white band across middle of tail; 
crown ashy, back black; wing-coverts 
broadly white; below yellow streaked 
with black. (Chapman and Reed.) 
Morgan Park, Ill., May 6 ; Rockford, May 
7; Southern Wisconsin, May 10. 
BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER 
L.. 5.2. Throat, line over eye, center of 
crown, and sides of neck bright orange; 
back black with a few whitish streaks; 
wing-bars broadly white; tail spots white. 
(Chapman and Reed.) 
BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER 
L., 5. Throat and breast black; cheeks 
greenish yellow; back olive green, wing- 
bars and tail-patches white. (Chapman 
and Reed.) Chicago, May 1; Rockford, 
May 3. 
