. The book of birds, common birds of town and country and American game birds . very different in disposition and habits, andI know of no bird more shy anrl ditTicult towatch. It frequents the banks ami neighbor-hood of clear streams that run throuyh wood-lands and tangles of laurel. One hears thfsharp note of challenge or the wild ringingsong, but any attempt to see the singer, unlessmade with the utmost caution, will end in disappointment or in a casual glimpse of a smallbrown bird flitting like a shadow through thebrush. The song of either water-thrush is of ahigh order of excellence. I can
. The book of birds, common birds of town and country and American game birds . very different in disposition and habits, andI know of no bird more shy anrl ditTicult towatch. It frequents the banks ami neighbor-hood of clear streams that run throuyh wood-lands and tangles of laurel. One hears thfsharp note of challenge or the wild ringingsong, but any attempt to see the singer, unlessmade with the utmost caution, will end in disappointment or in a casual glimpse of a smallbrown bird flitting like a shadow through thebrush. The song of either water-thrush is of ahigh order of excellence. I cannot but , that the song of the Louisiana water-thrush gains over that of its tuneful rival bypartaking somewhat of the nature of its wildsurroundings, and that its song is enhanced byits accompaniments—the murmur of the wood-land brook and the whisper of the foliage—among which it is heard. Quite a number ofour birds habitually teeter or wag their tails,but few as persistently as the water-thrushes KENTUCKY WARBLER COporomisformosus) (For text, see page ,11.
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