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WARBLER 286 WAR CAMP SERVICE WARBLER, a popular name often ap- plied to all the birds of the family Syl- viidse; (sometimes called by the French name of fauvettes) ; many of which, however, commonly receive other popu- lar names as the blackcap, nightin- NEST OF REED WARBLER gale, head sparrow, red breast, redstart, stonechat, wheatear, whitethroat, etc., while many receive the name warbler with some adjunct^ — reed warbler, etc. The more typical genera comprise birds of small size and plain plumage, usually alike in both sexes; most of them ai"e migratory, going a long way S. of their breeding haunts to winter; for instance, the Siberian chiff chaff {Phylloscopus t7-istis) winters in India. Such genera are Sylvia, to which the blackcap and garden warbler belong; Locustella, of which is the grasshopper warbler (L. nssvia), not infrequent in many parts of England, and found also in the S. of Scotland and in Ireland. It is found in most parts of the center and S. of Eu- rope, at least during summer, being a bird of passage. It is of a greenish- brown color, the centers of the feathers dark brown, producing a spotted ap- f^earance; the lower parts pale brown, t is a shy bird, hiding itself in hedges and bushes, but very active, often darting out like a mouse from the bot- tom of the hedge, and receives its name from its chirping, grasshopper-like note. WARBURG, FELIX M., an Ameri- can banker, born in Hamburg, Ger- many, in 1871. He was educated in the public and high schools of his native town, came to America in 1894 and was naturalized in 1900. In 1895 he married a daughter of the late Jacob H. Schiff, becoming in the following year a mem- ber of the latter's banking firm, Kuhn, Loeb & Company, New York. He was vice-president of the New York Founda- tion, president of the Federation of Jew- ish Charities, chairman of the Joint Dis- tribution Committee of funds for Jew- ish war sufferers, and a director or trustee of numerous charitable and educational societies and institutions, to which he contributed freely of his time and money. WARBURTON, WILLIAM, an Eng- lish prelate; born in Newark-upon-Trent, England, Dec. 24, 1698. He was brought up to the law, but not finding this pro- fession to his taste, he relinquished it, and in 1723 took deacon's orders in the Church. In 1727 he began to distinguish himself as a writer by his inquiry into the "Causes of Prodigies and Miracles." This led to his being presented to the rectory of Brand Broughton, in Lincoln- shire, where he remained many years, composing here most of those works which contributed to the establishment of his fame. In 1736 appeared his first important work, the "Alliance Between Church and State," etc., which brought him into favorable notice at court; but his great work is the "Divine Legation of Moses." It was assailed in many quar- ters, and Warburton carried on the con- troversy with ability and intemperate vigor. A defense of Pope's "Essay on Man" secured him the friendship of the poet, and he became a considerable bene- ficiary under the latter's will. By the death of Ralph Allen, whose niece he had married in 1745, Warburton succeeded YELLOW WARBLER to the splendid seat of Prior Park, in Gloucestershire. He was appointed, in 1746, preacher to the Society of Lincoln's Inn, and from that time his advance in Church preferment was rapid, till he be- came Bishop of Gloucester in 1759. He died in Gloucester, June 7, 1779. WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERV- ICE, an organization founded in Mayr