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but their songs ditTcr widely, and it was a pfroat satis- 

 faction to enjoy the op})ortnnity to listen to l>otli songs 

 at tlic same time. But while the northern species was 

 yet hundreds of miles from its nesting grounds, the 

 Louisiana AVaterthrush was quietly feeding half-grown 

 young in their cozy nook under roots ])rotruding from 

 the banks of a creek. W'liile the Kentucky Warbler seems 

 to prefer the lower levels of a valley or ravine, the Mary- 

 land Yellow-throat, its congener, finds a home wherever 

 there is a thicket to its taste, and is therefore much more 

 often heard along the hills than the other, but both are 

 plentiful. 



One of the most conmion sights and sounds met with 

 on our strolls, high and low, was the "Cliat" and its 

 almost human whistle. Being in the height of the love 

 season the execution of its flight song was a more connnon 

 occurrence. AVilson's Black Cap, a small, easily over- 

 looked, transient, but by no means rare in migration, was 

 several times the object of attention. Numerically strong 

 and generally <listributed, was the Redstart, a breeder 

 in the region, but probably reinforced by the transient 

 individuals northward bound. Catbirds were not com- 

 mon, the Carolina AVren was noticed a few times, and 

 Bewick's AVren several times in town and about farms, 

 never away from human habitation. As true and not 

 uncommon denizens of the woods, we have to mention the I 



Carolina Nuthatch, the Tufted Tit, and Carolina Chicka- I 



dee. Rather unexpected, because late in the season, was 

 the appearance of a Ihiby-crowned Kinglet, travelling 

 leisurely in comjiany of our late "Warblers, the Black-cap 

 and Tennessee. 



One of the most interesting woodland birds is the (Jnat- 

 catchcr, or Polioptila; though nowhere connnon, it is so 

 well distributed through the state that we find its curious 

 nest in a bald cypress over the water of the St. Francis, 

 as likely as in a ]iost oak on a lidge of the Ozarks. 

 Though already with family cares, and not at leisure to 



