Hybla, totos funde floras quidquid annus adtulit; 50 Hybla, florum rumpe vestem quantus Ætnæ campus est.

CHAPTER XII WOODLAND WARBLERS Black-and-white WarblerYellow WarblerYellow-rumped WarblerOvenbirdMaryland Yellow-throatYellow-breasted ChatAmerican Redstart.

THE YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER (Or MYRTLEBIRD)

" [Illustration: Yellow-Rumped Warbler.]

" The Yellow-rumped Warbler (Or MYRTLEBIRD) Length about five and a half inches Upper parts dark gray, streaked with black; two white bars on each wing; large white spots on some of the tail-feathers.

It has been recently discovered by the Wise Men that these birds, who had been supposed to eat nothing but insects, feed at this time upon the same bayberries of which the Yellow-rumped Warbler is so fond; and that is one reason why they stay by the sandy wastes where these bushes grow.

Yellow-rumped Warbler Dendroe'ca corona'ta.

The haire of them is a yard long, the rumpe is aboue a spanne long: they vse to hang them for brauerie upon the heades of their Elephantes: they bee much vsed in Pegu and China: they buie and sell by scores vpon the ground.