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botanists (simple, harmless folk who occasionally rise to an appreciation of 
birds, and are therefore to be encouraged) there is none to molest the bird- 
man nor to disturb his treasures. Dense shade, open clearing, crowded 
all are to be found 
saplings, scattering bush-clumps, dry land and swampy 
within the limits of 
that precious hun- 
dred acres, and all 
make separate con- 
tribution of interest 
to the eyes and ears 
of the ornithologist. | 
It would seem that 
the force of some 
venerable tradition 
impels each avian 
wanderer, each rarer 
bird of passage, te 
pause and rest, or 
worship, in this an- 
cient shtine. To 
speak of warblers 
alone, it was here 
that we first, saw 
Golden - winged, 
Brewster, Hooded, 
and a score of lesser 
lights. Here Strong 
saw the Connecticut, 
and jones the Prai- 
rie and NAirtland. 
Here only last sea- 
son a Kentucky 
turned up a hundred 
miles beyond his cus- 
tomary range. In 
short all but five of 
the forty species of = 
+ E Z Taken near Oberlin. Photo by the Author. 
Warblers credited to “THREE KINGLY OAKS.” : 
Ohio have reported 
in these allied bits of woodland. 
But of all the spots in this avian paradise the choicest is “Warbler cor- 
ner,’ and of all the birds which crowd to the edge of the wood to mark 
