166 CITIZEN BIRD 



the Kinglet is called after new, clean gold, and this 

 ' Thrush ' after old dusty gold." 



All this time Rap had been looking intently at the 

 Warbler without saying a word ; then he said suddenly : 

 " Why, it's the bird that builds the little house-nest 

 on the ground in the river woods I The nest that is 

 roofed all over and has a round hole in one side for a 

 door ! I'm so glad I know his name, for it isn't in my 

 part of the Nuttall book and the miller doesn't know 

 wdiat he is called. Is he named Ovenbird because he 

 has a door in one side of his nest like an oven? " 



" Yes, Rap, the nest is shaped like the kind of oven 

 that Indians used. Tell us about the one you found." 



" I was sitting on the bank where it goes down a 

 little to the river, and the ground there was humpy 

 with bunches of grass. A little bird like this Warbler 

 ran from between two of the grass humps and picked 

 about on the ground for a minute and then ran back. 

 I thought he had gone into a hole, but pretty soon he 

 came out again and flew up through the bushes to a 

 tall tree a little way off. He went out to the end of a 

 long branch and began to call — soft at first and then 

 very loud, as if his throat would split before he ended. 

 It was a very big noise for such a little bird." 



"Did he seem to say '^et/cAer, teacher, TEACHER' ?" 

 asked the Doctor, who knew John Burroughs very well. 



" Yes, he kept calling exactly that way. Then when 

 he stopped, I looked for the hole in the ground where 

 he came from. I felt round a little, and then I lay 

 down on the bank and looked up hill at the place to 

 try if I could find it that way. Then I saw a place 

 where the grass and leaves were made into a sort of 



