myrtle warbler

American  

noun

1. yellow-rumped warbler

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Etymology

Origin of myrtle warbler

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95

Example Sentences

From a tree nearby the olive thrush sang like clockwork; over beyond carolled eagerly a black-throat, a myrtle warbler, a dozen song sparrows, and a hundred vireos and creepers.

From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward

A little bird with which I here first made acquaintance was an elegant species known as Audubon's warbler, which may be regarded as the western representative of the myrtle warbler of the East.

From Birds of the Rockies by Keyser, Leander S. (Leander Sylvester)

Then, too, the myrtle warbler is only a migrant in Colorado, passing farther north to breed.

From Birds of the Rockies by Keyser, Leander S. (Leander Sylvester)

Next comes a myrtle warbler, eager to show us the yellow on his crown, on his two sides and the lower part of his back.

From Some Spring Days in Iowa by Lazell, Frederick John