WOODLAND SINGERS. 



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a shower ; then if the vireo is anywhere around he 

 will be sure to sing. Listen, this is his refrain, in 

 well-marked common time : 



The groups of six notes are given in a querulous 

 manner but with rollicking zest. 



There is still another woodland bird at least one 

 which may certainly be heard singing somewhere 

 near the top of a wooded hill, just beyond the 

 raspberry patch which we are passing ; the voice 

 sounds miles away, but it is an unmistakably familiar 

 and characteristic one. The white-throated 

 sparrow for this is the bird is best 

 known by the name Peabody bird 

 (Zonotrichia albicollis). In 

 Wilson's estimation, this is 

 the largest as well as the 

 handsomest of all 

 the sparrows. His 

 crown is black, his 



back red -brown ^ Peabody Bird. 



umber - streaked, 



and his wing feathers are light-brown edged. The 

 throat and breast are dull white, and over the eye 

 there are two white stripes. This sparrow nests in 



