YELLOW WARBLER 
Called also: Summer Yellowbird; Wild Canary. 
R ather than live where the skies are gray 
and the air is cold, this adventurous little 
warbler will travel two thousand miles or more to 
follow the sun. A trip from Panama to Canada 
and back again within five months does not 
appal him. By living in perpetual sunshine 
his feathers seemed to have absorbed some of it, 
so that he looks like a stray sunbeam playing 
among the shrubbery on the lawn, the trees in 
the orchard, the bushes in the roadside thicket, 
the willows and alders beside the stream. He 
is shorter than the English sparrow by an inch. 
Although you may not get close enough to see 
that his yellow breast is finely streaked with 
reddish brown, you may know by these marks 
that he is not what you at first suspected he 
was— somebody’s pet canary escaped from a 
cage. It is not he but the goldfinch — the 
yellow bird with the black wings — ^who sings 
like a canary. Happily he is so neighbourly 
that every child may easily become acquainted 
with this most common member of the large 
warbler family. 
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