The Birds’ Calendar . 
group. So that-one is hardly aware, until his 
attention is called to the fact, that about a 
third of all the song-birds he is likely to see 
are warblers. 
The genus to which the elegant ‘‘ hooded ’’ 
warbler belongs contains two other species that 
deserve. a word of mention—the black-capped 
‘flycatcher ’’ (or Wilson’s flycatcher) and the 
Canada ‘ flycatcher ’’—as truly warblers as the 
others, but called flycatchers because so much 
addicted to seizing insects on the wing. ‘These 
two made more impression on my own mind 
because, being in the same genus and coming 
at the same time, I took quite a dislike to the 
‘¢ black-cap,’’ and an equal fancy to the other. 
There is something in the appearance of the 
‘‘Wilson’’ that seems malign, and every time 
I saw it there was the same faint suggestion of 
repulsiveness. No other bird has given me any 
such impression. If any other person has had 
the same feeling he will understand it; if not, 
no amount of argument could make it seem 
otherwise than utterly whimsical. Certainly its 
coloring seems innocent enough—olive above, 
yellow beneath, and top of the head black. I 
would do him no injustice, but I suspect there 
is something questionable about him. 
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