368 CITIZEN BIRD 



Upper parts all freckled with brown, black, and tan color of 

 various shades, as if sun-burnt, with a velvety black patch on each 

 side of the neck, and the longest wing-feathers plain blackish with 

 brown tips; top of head plain brown. 



Under parts taw^ny whitish or pale buff, every feather with a 

 dark streak, and the middle line of feathers along the whole throat 

 white with brown streaks. 



Bill blackish and yellowish ; legs greenish ; claws brown ; eyes 

 yellow. 



A Citizen of temperate North America, but a very shy and soli- 

 tary bird, who will not be neighborly and is oftener heard than 

 seen in the bogs where he likes to live alone. He makes a loud noise 

 that sounds like chopping wood with an axe or driving a stake in 

 the ground with a mallet ; so he is called the Stake-driver by some 

 people, while others name him Thunder-pumper and Bog-bull. 

 His body is about as big as a Hen's, and he is sometimes known as 

 Indian Hen, though his very long beak, neck, and legs are not at 

 all like those of a Hen. 



A member of the guild of Wise Watchers, who keeps a sharp 

 lookout for the reptiles and little fishes he spears with his strong 

 pointed bill, and places his nest on the ground ; the eggs are drab- 

 colored, not pale green like those of most members of the Heron 

 family. 



A BONNpyr MARTYR AND A BLUE GIANT 



" You promised to tell us about four Herons — please, 

 who are the other two?" askecl Dodo, when she had fin- 

 ished writing these tables, and had buttoned her book 

 into the pocket of the long gray linen apron which 

 the Doctor had taught both Olive and herself to wear 

 on these excursions, whether they hunted birds, flowers, 

 or butterflies. 



"Boys have pockets — how T wish I was a boy!" 

 Dodo had said, after she had been at Orchard Farm a 

 couple of days. 



