. Bird-life: a guide to the study of our common birds . eucJier, teacher, TEACHER,TEACHEE is so applicable that no one would think ofdescribing it in any other ^vaT. The bird seems to exerthimself to the utmost, mid no one hearing this far frommusical performance would imagine that he couhl im-prove upon it. But if some evening during the heightof the mating season yon will visit the Oven-birdshaunts, you may hear a song Avhose wildness is is the flight-song cif the ()\-en-bird, transforming thehumble chanter into an inspiied musician. Soaring highabove the trees, he gives utteran
. Bird-life: a guide to the study of our common birds . eucJier, teacher, TEACHER,TEACHEE is so applicable that no one would think ofdescribing it in any other ^vaT. The bird seems to exerthimself to the utmost, mid no one hearing this far frommusical performance would imagine that he couhl im-prove upon it. But if some evening during the heightof the mating season yon will visit the Oven-birdshaunts, you may hear a song Avhose wildness is is the flight-song cif the ()\-en-bird, transforming thehumble chanter into an inspiied musician. Soaring highabove the trees, he gives utterance to a rapid, ecstaticwarbling so unlike his ordinary song that it is difficult tobelieve one bird is the author of them both. As an architect the Oven-bird is also unique nest is built on the ground of coarse grasses,weed stalks, leaves, and rootlets, and is roofed over, theentrance being at one side. It thus resembles an old-fashioned Dutch oven, and its shape is the origin of itsbuilders name. The Oven-bird arrives from the South. Plate LXVIII. P^gb 175. HOUSE , 5-00 inches. Upper parts brown, marked with blaoli andgrayish; under parts grayish white. MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT. 171 about May 1, and its eggs are laid about the 20tli of themonth. They are white, speckled or spotted with cinna-mon and reddish brown. The Maryland Yellow-throat is an abundant inhabit-ant of thickets and bushy undergrowths, readily iden-j^ J , tiHed by his black mask and yellow YeUow-throat, breast, nervous activity, and character-Geothlypistrichas. istic notes. Some birds must be aj]-^ ■ proached with caution, but nothing save an actual attack upon his home will cause the Yellow-throat to leave its shelter. Hopping from limb to limb,he advances to the border of the thicket, then retreats toits depths, all the time uttering an impatient chack, chit,or pit, and, if forced to fly, he goes only to the next clumpof bushes. The Yellow-throats somewhat explosive song is soeas
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