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other birds named, but still quite beautiful with 

 his olive-green back, ashy head, throat and breast, 

 and yellow under parts. Still more plainly attired 

 is the Tennessee warbler, a tiny bird, tr3dng to con- 

 ceal himself in the clump of bushes at the right. 

 However, the golden-crowned thrush, or oven bird, 

 walking about so deliberately on the ground, could 

 scarcely be called plain, although his plumage is 

 not brilliant. You may always know him by his 

 orange-brown or orange-rufous crown, bordered on 

 each side by a black stripe, which runs back to the 

 nape. 



His back is olive-green, and his white under 

 parts are thickly streaked with dusky or black. 

 His song once heard in the depths of a woodland 

 will never be forgotten, it is so loud and startling, 

 as it breaks suddenly upon the silence. When you 

 hear a bird rapidly repeating the notes, Te-cha^ te- 

 cha, te-cha ! with the accent on the second syllable, 

 you may rest assured that you have heard the 

 oven bird. He gets his name from the peculiar 

 form of his nest, which is indeed a curiosity in 

 bird architecture. 



Similar to him in some respects, though more 

 mezzo-tinted, is the water wagtail, walking about 

 on the ground, and ''• teetering " like a sandpiper. 



