than these pretty 

 vocalists. In the 

 spring of that 

 year I had spent 

 a month in Loui- 

 siana, Mississip- 

 pi, and other 

 Southern States, 

 and in the 

 dank, quak- 

 ing marshes, 

 along the 

 streams, 

 and in 



y 



Maryland yellowthroats. 



