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spersed with Vireo-like hunting through the tops, creeper-like 

 climbing on the larger branches and Flycatcher excursions out 

 into the air. All these activities were accompanied by ceaseless 

 song, which once in a while had a more melodious quality than 

 the lazy drawl so characteristic of the sun-steeped pine tops of 

 midday. Whether the Pine Warbler is a bird you can take 

 deep into your affections, I do not know. Only acquaintance 

 with all his ways would reveal that, but what I learned of him 

 in one week augurs well for a greater liking. For a Warbler he 

 is a restful bird, symbolical in this, as in song and dress, of the 

 pine barrens that are his home. 



