BIRDS OF THE SALT MARSHES 



ting and Lapland longspur are also to be 

 found there. I have seen yellow warblers 

 drop down into the black grass from the 

 near-by uplands, and several times in Feb- 

 ruary I have found little flocks of myrtle 

 warblers flitting from pile to pile of thatch 

 where it extended above the ice, hunting for 

 dormant spiders and other insects. Strange 

 surroundings for a member of the delicate 

 tribe of wood warblers! 



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