_ pale valiow, but the season will oxten help you to decide ; 
which bird you have found. 
The Audubon Warbler i is a most siahaeiows sant : 
-ance, for he loves the suburbs of cities and may often be 
found about parks and homes. He has an unexpected way 
of dropping down from above, and catching any kind of 
support with his toes, swinging upside down while he looks | 
in cracks, under the eaves of porches, or on the lower surface iS 
of leaves for his choice dainties: spiders, all sorts of insects, — 
and their eggs. His colors are much gayer in the spring 
and summer and he sings a little ripple of music which is 
much like the one that the Oregon Junco is singing at that — SS 
time, before the latter goes to the mountains or the North- ae 
land, in early April. 
On the Pacific slope the cou nbnest warhlce arrives in 
late March or the first of April, before the leaves are on the 
trees and starts South in October. Most bird students see. 
its small yellowish-green body and hear the insistent whis-  _- 
tled trill “ts-e-e-t’’ before they get his name, Lutescent 
Warbler. He gets his first name from his color, which is | 
greened a bit on the back. If he lifts his crown feathers a 
little you may be surprised at the warm aaa se wash: Rise 
which they are decorated. a 
Probably the third acquaintance one ioe in ‘hie group a 
of birds will be the Yellow, or Summer Warbler, as it is the | 
next commonest form in this section, and is found, with 
summer, all over North America. They are small brilliant | 
blossoms of yellow, with shrill voices that make a kind Of 
music in many a fruit and shade tree. He comes in early 
May and may still occasionally be heard in September. If 
his head is wearing a black cap in place of being all yellow, 
and he is found on the west slope of the divide, the bird is ae 
the Golden Pileolated Warbler, but if on the east slope, he _ 
is the Pileolated Warbler. If the Yellow Warbler has lived 
until his third year his lower parts will show that he has 
: grown-up by. being splashed with orange streaks. There 
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