. Bird-land echoes; . Oven-bird. musicians. One of these pretty warblers is theoven-bird, so called from the manner of its nesting ;the other is the water-thrush. Both are intelligiblynamed, and the latter is not so excessively rare inthis locality as has been asserted. The oven-bird,in a soft brown suit with greenish lustre, its mo-notony relieved by streaks and spots of black, ismuch of the time a strictly woodland bird, althoughI have known of marked exceptions. It is a small Waiting for Warblers. 71 bird, but with such pecuHar habits that it is prom-inent even when many birds of other kind
. Bird-land echoes; . Oven-bird. musicians. One of these pretty warblers is theoven-bird, so called from the manner of its nesting ;the other is the water-thrush. Both are intelligiblynamed, and the latter is not so excessively rare inthis locality as has been asserted. The oven-bird,in a soft brown suit with greenish lustre, its mo-notony relieved by streaks and spots of black, ismuch of the time a strictly woodland bird, althoughI have known of marked exceptions. It is a small Waiting for Warblers. 71 bird, but with such pecuHar habits that it is prom-inent even when many birds of other kinds areabout it. Attention will be drawn to it by itsstately walk and a seesaw motion that suggests ourlong-legged wading birds. On their arrival, late inApril, no bird is more familiar, and they even tarryfor a few days in the larger yards of our towns ifthey have much shrubbery in them. But when thedays grow some half-hour longer and the noontideheat a few degrees stronger, these thrush-like warblerstake to the woods
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