178 THE KENTUCKY WARBLER. 
THE local preferences of the Kentucky Warbler lie about midway be- 
tween those of the Oven-bird and the Louisiana Water Thrush; and there 
is much in the bird’s appearance and manner to remind one of its near rela- 
tionship to the Seiwri. But the bird is no mere echo of another more illus- 
trious; its ways are its own, and its personality most marked. Damp hill- 
sides, heavily wooded and with dense undergrowth, are the chosen haunts 
of this distinguished Warbler, especially if at the bottom of the hill there 
Taken n Douda Run. Photo by the Author. 
A BIT FROM KENTUCKY’S RANGE. 
is a half-open glade set about with bush-clumps and a tiny stream of water 
trickling through it. Here the Warbler seeks its food upon the ground, 
walking instead of hopping over its surface, stooping to peer under a projecting 
stone, turning over a suspected leaf, and nimbly gathering in the scurrying 
harvest. Now the bird flits up to a fallen log and measures its length, now 
dives into a cranny behind it, and now emerges again in time to leap into the 
air for a passing insect. ‘Through long association with mother earth the 
