THE BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER. 



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botanists (simple, harmless folk who occasionally rise to an appreciation of 

 birds, and are therefore to be encouraged) there is none to molest the bird- 

 man nor to disturb his treasures. Dense shade, open clearing, crowded 

 saplings, scattering bush-clumps, dry land and swampy all are to be found 

 within the limits of 

 that precious hun- 

 dred acres, and all 

 make separate con- 

 tribution of interest 

 to the eyes and ears 

 of the ornithologist. 

 It would seem that 

 the force of some 

 venerable tradition 

 impels each avian 

 wanderer, each rarer 

 bird of passage, tc 

 pause and rest, or 

 worship, in this an- 

 cient shrine. To 

 speak of warblers 

 alone, it was here 

 that we first saw 

 Golden - winged, 

 Brewster, Hooded, 

 and a score of lesser 

 lights. Here Strong 

 saw r the Connecticut, 

 and Jones the Prai- 

 r i e and Kirtland. 

 Here only last sea- 

 son a Kentucky 

 turned up a hundred 

 miles beyond his cus- 

 tomary range. In 

 short all but five of 

 the forty species of 

 Warblers credited to 

 Ohio have reported 

 in these allied bits of woodland. 



But of all the spots in this avian paradise the choicest is "Warbler cor- 

 ner," and of all the birds which crowd to the edge of the wood to mark 



ear Oberlit\ 



Photo by the Author. 



'THREE KINGLY OAKS." 



