. Bird-life: a guide to the study of our common birds . her, teacher, teachee, TEACHER,TEACHER is so applicable that no one would think ofdescribing it in any other way. The bird seems to exerthimself to the utmost, and no one hearing this far frommusical performance would imagine that he could im-prove upon it. But if some evening during the heightof the mating season you will visit the Oven-birdshaunts, you may hear a song whose wildness is is the fiight-song of the Oven-bird, transforming thehumble chanter into an inspired musician. Soaring highabove the trees, he gives utteran
. Bird-life: a guide to the study of our common birds . her, teacher, teachee, TEACHER,TEACHER is so applicable that no one would think ofdescribing it in any other way. The bird seems to exerthimself to the utmost, and no one hearing this far frommusical performance would imagine that he could im-prove upon it. But if some evening during the heightof the mating season you will visit the Oven-birdshaunts, you may hear a song whose wildness is is the fiight-song of the Oven-bird, transforming thehumble chanter into an inspired 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. Paqe 175. HOUSE , 5-00 inches. Upper parts brown, marked with black andgrayish; under parts grayish white. MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT. 171 about May 1, and its eggs are laid about the 20th 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-Maryland titled by his black mask and yellow TeUow-throat, breast, nervous activity, and character-Geothiypis trioias. istic notes. Some birds must be ap-ate XIV. proached with caution, but nothing savean actual attack upon his home will cause the Yellow-throat to leave its shelter. Hopping from hmb to limb,he advances to the border of the thicket, then retreats toits depths, all the time uttering an impatient chaok, chit,or pit, and, if forced to fly, he goes only to the next clumpof bushes. The Yellow-throats somewhat explosive song is soe
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