October 1891.] 



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banded with black, showed against the green 

 of tlie oak as the tubes came in line with hira 

 in quiet harmony of color, and blended with 

 the foliage he made a picture to be remem- 

 bered arf a reminiscence of a master hand 

 would be. And was not this view by a master 

 hand ? The glasses showed him in all his 

 beauty and enabled us to watch his move- 

 ments without his being disturbed by our 

 presence. The game laws class him as non- 

 shootable, and we were law-abiding citizens. 



The open oakwood gave way to larger 

 growth, interspersed witli tall pines, and bird 

 life was .scarce. We were rambling along the 

 moss-grown road, drinking in the health-giving 



ten miles away, in the same county, the birds 

 were abundant almost everywhere, and that 

 too, with almost identical surroundings, as re- 

 gards the woodland and other conditions. 

 Here in Sudbury they seemed to be reason- 

 ably plentiful, and we found them at several 

 points in our journey. 



A Chestnut-sided Warbler was the next one 

 to be added to our list and we came out into 

 the open once more and made for the edge of 

 the wood beyond the fields. 



This was the spot for the Warblers, and a 

 Magnolia was the first of this family to show 

 up, but he was merely travelling nortliward 

 and we did not stop for him. 



BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER. From Coues- Key to North American Birds. 



ozone at every breath and chatting of the 

 various objects which ci'ossed our path, when 

 a bird note broke the stillness and we ex- 

 claimed with one voice '"That's a Tanager." 



Tliere he was, a inagnificent male bird, in 

 the full glory of scarlet coat with black sleeves, 

 perched on the very tip-top of a tall pine, 

 which towered above all the rest. He sat there 

 like a spot of flame, above the dark green 

 foliage, lit by the bright rays of the rising sun. 



Curious liirds tliese, the .Scarlet Tanagers. 

 They seem to be common enough and yet 

 they are not so often seen, at least it is the 

 fact in Massachusetts. They seem to be very 

 local II nd very particular in their selection of a 

 hmnc. In my boyhood days, although an 

 inveterate woods tramp, I scarcely ever saw 

 one of the birds, and there was only one 

 locality in the town where tliere was any 

 suretv of finding one in their season. Only 



A bird flying througli tlieair, passing several 

 times down the course of an open bit of land 

 which bordered what had at one time been a 

 brook, lured us into a piece of swamp, and be- 

 fore long we located a bunch of twigs and 

 building material on the end of a pine branch, 

 some fifty feet above the ground. The glasses 

 showed that it was incomplete and we did 

 not climb but we stopped long enough to 

 identify the bird, which was a female Black- 



; throated Green Warbler, as she made her 



' frequent trips to and fro. 



She almost always came froi" one direction, 

 down the course of the narrow open space 

 between the high woods, and returned in the 

 same path. 



We found these birds quite plentiful during 

 the day, locating another nest and noting a 



j number of the birds. 



I A "rove near by in the lowLmd gave us a 



