OVEN-BIRD. 
down, and lined with caterpillar’s silk and the fine fibre 
of grape-vine bark. Egg white spotted at the larger 
end with a variety of browns. This bird is distributed 
(perhaps unevenly) over the eastern United States; it 
breeds from Florida to Michigan and southern New Eng- 
land, and winters in Florida and the West Indies. Un- 
like most of the Wood Warblers, it frequents open places 
and bushy fields or clearings. 
The song of the Prairie is a delightful little bit of a 
chromatic run, consisting of six or seven notes, all char- 
acterized by a distinct overtone, thus: 
. 3times Bva. 
Vivace accel. f 
The time is moderate and slightly accelerated, all the 
notes are closely connected, and there is a perceptible 
drop of a semitone at the close of thesong. At the same 
time the song is not like the harsh-toned one of the Black- 
throated Blue; the voice has a higher pitch, a far more 
lively movement, and it does not remind one of the 
mournful refrain of the young turkey as does the voice 
of the other bird. 
Oven-bird This is the noisiest and least musical 
Golden- Warbler in the whole family; nothing less 
ke than a double forte mark will hi 
Thrush an a double for e mark will express his 
Seiurus emphatic accents in musical notation. 
aurocapillus That character of his song ought to be 
L. 6.20inches sufficient for its immediate identification 
May Sth without a further description of its swing- 
ing tones. The colors of the bird are not unlike those 
of a Thrush, hence the popular name. Crown striped, 
the centre golden ochre bounded on either side by black; 
the upper parts generally light, brownish, olive green; 
no wing-bars nor tail patches; under parts white with 
strong sepia-black markings beginning at the corners of 
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