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my eye. My first day's walks very short 

 and altogether at haphazard, and that of the 

 afternoon as good as thrown away showed 

 but three species of warblers ; an anomalous 

 state of things, especially as two of the birds 

 were the oven-bird and the golden warbler, 

 neither of them to be reckoned among the 

 early comers of the family. The next day I 

 saw six other species, including such prompt 

 ones as the pine-creeper and the myrtle bird, 

 and such a comparatively tardy one as the 

 Blackburnian. On the 26th three additional 

 names were listed, the blue yellow-back, 

 the chestnut-side, and the worm-eater. Not 

 until the fourth day was anything seen or 

 heard of the black-throated green. This 

 fact of itself would establish the worthless- 

 ness of any conclusions that might be drawn 

 from the progress of events as I had noted 

 them. 



On the 28th, when my first blue golden- 

 wings made their appearance, there were 

 present also in the same place three palm 

 warblers, my only meeting with them in 

 Virginia, where Dr. Rives marks them " not 

 common." With them, or in the same small 

 wood, were a group of silent red-eyed vireos, 



