THE BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER. 



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botanists (simple, harmless folk who occasionally rise to an appreciation of 

 birds, and are therefore to be encouraged) there is none to molest the bird- 

 man nor to disturb his treasures. Dense shade, open clearing, crowded 

 saplings, scattering- bush-clumps, dry land and swampy — all are to be found 

 within the limits of 

 that precious hun- 

 dred acres, and all 

 make separate con- 

 tribution of interest 

 to the eyes and ears 

 of the ornithologist. 

 It would seem that 

 the force of some 

 venerable tradition 

 impels each avian 

 wanderer, each rarer 

 bird of passage, tc 

 pause and rest, or 

 worship, in this an- 

 cient shrine. To 

 speak of warblers 



alone, it was here 

 that we first saw 

 Golden - winged, 

 Brewster, Hooded, 

 and a score of lesser 

 lights. Here Strong 

 saw the Connecticut, 

 ami Jones the Prai- 

 r i e and Kirtland. 

 Here only last sea- 

 son a Kentuc k y 

 turned up a hundred 

 miles beyond bis cus- 

 tomary range. In 

 short all but live of 

 the forty species of 

 Warblers credited to "THREE KINGLY OAKS." 



Ohio have reported 

 in these allied bits of woodland. 



But of all the spots in this avian paradise the choicest is 

 ner," and of all the birds which crowd to the edge of the 



"Warbler cor- 



,v 1 to mark 



