food, and within the hour had apparently forgotten their 
sorrows and settled down to feed the one wee chick that was 
left. While the parents were away for food the nest was 
opened and the way that baby bird turned tail up, burying _ 
its head in the nest lining reminded an observer of the habit 
which is told about the ostrich. | 
July 20th saw the youngster seseeibiine up the wall 
of his home to the doorway where he perched, blinking his 
round brown eyes. He seemed to enjoy having his throat 
and back scratched and did not resent attentions, but the 
parents apparently did, for the nest was deserted at sun- 
down on July 22d, after a long visit from the class that 
afternoon. They found the tiny fledgling scarcely able to 
leap from twig to twig of the tangled undergrowth into 
which he disappeared. Two mornings later, they fancied 
they recognized the same family of three, by a peculiar white - 
iris of one parent bird, as they fluttered about from branch 
to branch in an alder, forty feet above the eround. 
Tf it were not that the warbler family is usually 
decorated with gay colors, one would have even more trouble 
than now in catching glimpses of them, for while their 
bright spots blend with the foliage when they stay among’ 
the leaves, the brilliant streaks can be more easily followed 
as they fly from one tree to another. | 
A beginner need not worry about knowing warblers in 
the summer when he sees bits of yellow feathers dashing © 
madly about in housekeeping duties. He can wait until 
winter to get acquainted with the warbler that is often a 
- resident of Western North America to the border of the 
Great Plain for, then he will have half a chance to see the 
_ Audubon Warbler. If you once see a small black-splashed, 
- bluish-gray bird with yellow spots on the head, chin, rump 
and sides of breast, you have met this warbler. There is 
only one other, the Myrtle Warbler, that could be confused 
with the Audubon, and it is a spring and fall migrant and 
has a white throat. The female Audubon’s throat is very 
