A Book on Birds 



in time to accord him further honor (as 

 we no doubt will), what we do will be 

 justified by many worthy precedents. Nor 

 will we find local inspiration lacking entirely. 

 The great naturalist's quaint but dignified 

 old mansion up in Montgomery county 

 has been nobly looked after for many 

 years by a well-known family; and every 

 ornithologist of the present generation who 

 has ever made it his Mecca has returned 

 thence with renewed zeal and enthusiasm. 



However, this is parenthetical. Let us 

 return to the Wood Warblers at Indian 

 Creek, some of which Audubon first dis- 

 covered here, painting them into his im- 

 mortal series of more than a thousand 

 specimens. 



As we come, the American Redstart 

 meets us directly, and almost before we are 

 well amongst the trees. Think of a bird only 

 about the size of your thumb in the brilliant 

 garb of the Baltimore Oriole — and you 

 have him; except that the flaming orange 

 red, which is his dominant color, is some- 

 times even more splendid than the Oriole's. 



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