_Dendroica æstiva æstiva. Case 8, Figs. 40, 41_
A small yellow bird streaked below with brownish;
inner webs of tail-feathers yellow. L. 5.
_Range._ Nests from Missouri and South Carolina to
Canada; winters in the tropics.
Washington, common S.R., abundant T.V., Apl.
4-Sept. 28. Ossining, common S.R., Apl. 30-Sept.
27. Cambridge, abundant S.R., May 1-Sept. 15. N.
Ohio, abundant S.R., Apl. 14-Sept. 10. Glen Ellyn,
not very common S.R., Apl. 30-Sept. 6. SE. Minn.,
common S.R., Apl. 28-Sept. 10.
Show me willows over water and any day in May or June I'll show you a
Yellow Warbler. Shade and fruit trees also attract him and he may build
his cotton-padded nest in their branches or in the shrubbery below. The
song is a simple _we-chee, chee, chee, chee, cher-wee_, resembling that
of the Chestnut-side, but has its own distinctive tone which permits of
ready identification, once it has been learned. The bluish white eggs,
thickly marked with shades of brown, are laid the latter half of May.