. Birdcraft : a field book of two hundred song, game, and water birds . A ball of leaves and grasses on the ground with a side opening,hence the name Ovenbird, though the nest bears a closer resem-blance to the earth huts the Italian labourers build. Eggs: 4, cream-white, specked with brown-purple. Bange: Eastern North America, north to Hudsons Bay Territoryand Alaska; in winter southern Florida, the West Indies,and Central America. With the Ground Warblers we come again to birds withmusical voices, who, even if they do wear more sober plu-mage, are a welcome change from the lisping prettiness
. Birdcraft : a field book of two hundred song, game, and water birds . A ball of leaves and grasses on the ground with a side opening,hence the name Ovenbird, though the nest bears a closer resem-blance to the earth huts the Italian labourers build. Eggs: 4, cream-white, specked with brown-purple. Bange: Eastern North America, north to Hudsons Bay Territoryand Alaska; in winter southern Florida, the West Indies,and Central America. With the Ground Warblers we come again to birds withmusical voices, who, even if they do wear more sober plu-mage, are a welcome change from the lisping prettiness ofthe previous groups. If you wish to identify the Ovenbird, or Golden-crownedThrush, as he is still called, you must trust to sound ratherthan sight, for you will hear far oftener than see him. Onhis arrival in the early part of May, he comes familiarlyabout the garden, sometimes in company with the Veery,and spends a week, perhaps, among the shrubs and ever-greens, running out on the ground occasionally, with analert air, as if looking for his mate. 106 PLATE 1. , inches. 2. RED-EYED VIREO. Length, inches. SONG-BIRDS. Warblers At this time the bird appears like a small, slenderThrush, with a little golden-brown streak on the from the pines comes the half-defiant call, Teacher, Teacher, TEACHER! each syllable accented,and rattled off with increasing volume, and you are quiteincredulous that so small a bird can utter such a notes are familiar to you; you have heard them a hun-dred times breaking the intense noon stillness of the woods,but you had supposed that they proceeded at least from alarge Woodpecker; but no, it is the Ovenbird; and thiscall has given him a third name, — the Accentor. By thetenth of May they leave the garden and seek the lighterwoods where, having paired, they go into deeper shade tobuild their homes. Hickory, oak, and beech woods, with fern-grown bankssloping to a stream, are their favou
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