. The American natural history : a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. hern edge of the ArcticBarren Grounds to southern Mexico. In her very usefulbook, entitled Birds of the Western United States, Merriam Bailey enumerates forty species; andMr. Frank M. Chapman, in his Birds of Eastern NorthAmerica, gives fifty-two. Of these, however, twenty-oneare duplicated, and therefore the whole number of warblersdescribed in the two handbooks is seventy-one. When weconsider the fact that about sixty of those species are verysmall birds, of uniform size, an
. The American natural history : a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. hern edge of the ArcticBarren Grounds to southern Mexico. In her very usefulbook, entitled Birds of the Western United States, Merriam Bailey enumerates forty species; andMr. Frank M. Chapman, in his Birds of Eastern NorthAmerica, gives fifty-two. Of these, however, twenty-oneare duplicated, and therefore the whole number of warblersdescribed in the two handbooks is seventy-one. When weconsider the fact that about sixty of those species are verysmall birds, of uniform size, and many of them quite un-marked by striking special colors, the difficulty of becomingacquainted with the different species will begin to present purposes, the whole Family can be very fairly THE SUMMER YELLOW-BIRD 283 represented by three species. Two of them are of universaldistribution, and the third (the chat) is nearly so. The Yellow Warbler, or Summer Yellow-Bird,^ ischosen as the type of about sixty species of small wood warblerseach of which is called warbler with a descriptive name. YELLOW WARBLER. prefixed, such as palm warbler, prairie warbler, Calaveraswarbler, etc. It is of a bright, greenish-yellow color, and iseasily recognized on the wing. On the western prairie farmsthe boys call it a Wild Canary, because it strongly re-sembles the orange-yellow phases of that popular cage if courting acquaintance with man, it loves to frequentthe roadside thickets, the edges of woods, and even theorchard and garden. * Dcn-droi-ca acsti-va. Lengtli, 5 inches. 284 PERCHERS AND SINGERS The beauty of this bird far surpasses its minstrelsy, for itis but an indifferent singer. The fact is, however, that it hasso much work to do in catching insects it has httle time formusic; for it will be noticed throughout the bird world thatthe most diligent insect-catchers are not in the habit ofsinging over their work. This is due to the same reasonthat a good deer-hunter does
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