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teristic birds. One need not be surprised to encoun- 

 ter many others, as will surely be the case. 



The type of locality that almost blends with the 

 pasture is the bushy swamp, or swampy thicket. 

 Here are various birds which easily overflow into the 

 pasture. A notable case is the catbird. Anywhere 

 where there are thick, rather high bushes one is liable 

 to find it. This is true also of the yellow-throat, 

 that inquisitive warbler of the swamps which the be- 

 ginner will soon have to learn. It is supposed to 

 sing " witchery, witchery," and its conspicuous fea- 

 ture is that suggested by its name, the male having 

 also a pronounced black stripe about the eyes. In 

 these haunts we may find, in migration, the mourning 

 and Connecticut warblers. The white-eyed vireo is 

 partial to thickets near a swamp or brook. It has 

 a bold, ringing song, very distinct from that of the 

 other vireos, and as it is quite apt to let one approach 

 very near and see its funny eyes with the staring white 

 iris, it is not hard to identify. 



The rose-breasted grosbeak is especially partial to 

 a swampy growth of young maples, where it nests, 

 but the drier thickets often answer its purpose, and 

 it even rambles to the garden. This bird resembles 

 the purple finch in the difference between sexes. The 

 female is also a sparrow-like bird with a very thick 

 bill, but much larger than the purple finch or any spar- 

 row, and radically different from her distinguished 

 black and white husband with the rose-spot on his 



