64 Birds Every Child Should Know 



paper all the multitude of queer sounds with 

 which the bird amuses himself. He might be 

 mistaken for a dozen different birds and animals 

 in as many minutes. 



Such a secretive roysterer is he that you may 

 rarely see him, however often you may hear his 

 voice when he is hidden beyond sight in partial 

 clearings or the bushy, briery, thickety openings 

 in the woods. As he seems to delight in keep- 

 ing pursuers off by a natural fence of barbed 

 wire, the cat brier, wild blackberry, raspberry, 

 and rose bushes are among his favourite plants. 

 But if you will sit down quietly near his home, 

 your patience will probably be rewarded by the 

 sight of this largest of the warblers, with olive 

 green upper parts, a conspicuous white line 

 running from his bill around his eye and another 

 along his throat, and a bright yellow breast 

 shading to grayish white underneath. He is 

 over an inch longer than the English sparrow. 

 His wife looks just like him. 



The zany at the circus can go through no 

 more clownish tricks than the chat. See him, 

 a mere bunch of feathers, dance and balance in 

 the air, now fluttering, now falling as if he had 

 been shot, or turning aerial somersaults, now 

 rising and trailing his legs behind him like a 

 stork, now dropping out of sight in the thickest 

 part of the thicket. The instant he spies you, 

 Chut'Chut, he scolds from the briars. Shy, 



