The Birds’ Calendar 
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which is usually the forerunner of the family. 
It is about six inches long: olive above, throat 
and breast bright yellow, passing into white 
beneath, and two white wing-bars—chiefly a 
denizen of pine woods; and whoever has found 
it in its summer resorts will thereafter always 
associate its simple, sweet, and drowsy song with 
the smell of pines in a sultry day. It often 
vums along the branches, an unusual occur- 
rence for any bird, and especially for warblers, 
whose nervous temperament commonly puts 
them on the wing, as the most congenial 
method of locomotion. Like the nuthatch the 
pine-creeper often clings to the tree-trunk. It 
is probably only seen as a migrant in this re- 
gion, which is true of about half of the war- 
blers, their summer home being in northern 
New England and beyond. 
The reader of any ornithological literature 
that is not technically scientific, will observe 
the alternating occurrence of ‘‘he’’ and ‘‘it,’’ 
‘¢who’’ and ‘“ which,’’ in speaking of a bird. 
This results from the writer’s effort to satisfy 
the demands of sentiment on the one side, and 
of grammar on the other. For it is very dis- 
tasteful to any bird-lover to degrade his friends 
to the impersonality of the neuter gender, and 
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