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bles; a singer; a songster; -- applied chiefly to birds. In lulling strains the feathered warblers woo. Tickell.

A beautiful warbler of the United States (Dendroica Blackburniæ). The male is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast.

A genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes.

The lesser whitethroat of Europe; -- called also babbling warbler.

A warbler of the United States (Dendroica striata).

A small European bird; the blue-throated warbler.

ecica), related to the nightingales; -- called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler.

A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yelow-breasted chat (I. viridis), and the long chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidæ, as the stonechat, and whinchat. Bush chat. (Zoöl.) See under Bush.…

A species of European warbler (Sylvia hippolais); -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps.

A small singing bird, as the nightingale and warblers.

The European garden warbler (Sylvia, or Currica, hortensis); -- called also beccafico and greater pettychaps.

An English warbler (Melizophilus provincialis); -- called also furze wren, and Dartford warbler.

mony (Chem.), the pentasulphide of antimony, a golden or orange yellow powder. -- Golden warbler (Zoöl.), a common American wood warbler (Dendroica æstiva); -- called also blue-eyed yellow warbler, garden warbler, and summer yellow bird. -- Golden wasp (Zoöl.), a bright-colored hymenopterous insect, of the family Chr…

ate point. -- Grasshopper lobster (Zoöl.) a young lobster. [Local, U. S.] -- Grasshopper warbler (Zoöl.), cricket bird.

rican thrush (Turdus Pallasii), with retiring habits, but having a sweet song. -- Hermit warbler (Zoöl.), a California wood warbler (Dendroica occidentalis), having the head yellow, the throat black, and the back gray, with black streaks.

ganser. See Merganser. -- Hooded snake. See Cobra de capello, Asp, Haje, etc. -- Hooded warbler, a small American warbler (Sylvania mitrata).

The European cricket warbler.

The European sedge warbler (Acrocephalus phragmitis).

from its plaintive note. Called also Carolina dove. See Illust. under Dove. -- Mourning warbler (Zoöl.), an American ground warbler (Geothlypis Philadelphia). The male has the head, neck, and chest, deep ash-gray, mixed with black on the throat and chest; other lower parts are pure yellow.

In England, sometimes applied to the willow warbler, and to the long-tailed titmouse.