WOODLAND WARBLERS "Now you may be introduced to a family of American birds, many of them brightly colored and none of them large, who have no cousins or relations in any other country.

You must not expect them to come and peep in the window like the Catbird, or feed on the lawn like the Thrush and Robin; for they are birds of woodland and brushland.

Yet the often come for a time in their journeys to gardens and orchards, for they are among the greatest travellers." "Why do they travel so much, if they are only American birds ?" asked Nat.

"I shouldn't think they would have to go far if they always live in America." "America is a very large country, my boy, and you must not forget it includes South as well as North America--the Western Hemisphere of the whole globe.

Warblers are insect-eating Citizens and cannot live long on anything else.