WOODLAND WARBLERS 



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THE OVENBIRD 



*' I will show you a ' skin ' of the Ovenbird, because 

 it may be some time before you will see this Ground 

 Warbler at home in the deep woods." 



'' ' Skin! ' What is that? " asked Rap, as the Doctor 

 took from his pocket what looked merely like a dead 

 bird. 



" A '- bird-skin,' so called, is the bird preserved and 

 prepared for stuffing, with all its feathers on, but with- 

 out glass eyes and not mounted in a natural position. 

 You see that it takes up much less room than the birds 

 that are set up in my cases, and is more easily carried 

 about." 



" He looks like a little Thrush," said Olive, " except 

 that he is too green on the back, and the stripe on his 

 head is of a dingy gold color. That is why he is often 

 called the * Golden-crowned Thrush,' though he is not a 

 Thrush at all, but one of the American AVarblers, and 

 the crown is more the color of copper, than like the 

 gold on the Golden-crowned Kinglet's head. Perhaps 



