A Book on Birds 



are other Wood Warblers, and many of 

 them, even brighter than he. And Indian 

 Creek (a stream, well known to Audubon, 

 flowing into the Schuylkill river about two 

 miles above Norristown) is of all localities 

 within my own observation the place of 

 places to find them. Here they hnger in 

 the spring until Memorial Day, feeding and 

 flitting from twig to twig amidst the thick 

 branches shot with sunlight that overhang 

 the clear and rippling surface of the water. 

 And it was among these Uttle migrants 

 that Audubon came upon his rarest and 

 most beautiful ^' finds, ^^ along this very 

 stream during those days a century ago 

 when he found also his bride and made 

 his home in the famous house by the 

 Perkiomen, which still stands there in 

 perfect preservation and good order. 



As we think of this our quest becomes 

 invested at once with a deeper, finer 

 interest; the velvety moss seems richer 

 beneath our tread, and the older forest 

 trees which tower to the sky along the high, 

 precipitous banks seem to tell faintly of 



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