General Range.—Middle and southern portions of the eastern United States, 
rare north of latitude 42°. South in winter to Guatemala, Cuba, and the Bahamas. 
Breeds throughout United States range, and winters from the South Atlantic and 
Gulf States southward. 
Range in Ohio.—Abundant summer resident ; less common northerly. 
THERE are birds in whose presence you cannot help exclaiming, God 
bless you! and this is one of them. Why you should do it you cannot tell 
any more than you can tell why the same expression rises to your lips at sight 
of a blue-eyed babe in its mother’s arms, kicking and cooing by turns and look- 
ing out upon the great round world with great round eyes of wonder. The 
innocence and frailty of the bird, as of the babe, touches some hidden chord of 
sympathy, and we 
cry out in mingled 
big-brotherly pity 
and astonishment. 
One's first intro- 
duction to this 
munikin of the 
woods must 
almost of ne- 
cessity be 
when the 
bird has ven- 
tured down 
to the lower 
bushes, or 
heaped - up 
Taken near Oberlin, Photo by the Author. 
A NEST OF THE BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER. 
