AMERICAN REDSTART 859 



reddish. This reminds me that I supposed much more 

 variety and fertility in nature before I had learned the 

 numbers and the names of each order. I find that I 

 had expected such fertility in our Concord woods alone 

 as not even the completest museum of stuffed birds of 

 all the forms and colors from all parts of the world 

 comes up to. 



[/See also under Oven-bird, p. 357.] 



WARBLERS (iN GENERAL) 



April 19, 1854. Within a few days the warblers 

 have begun to come. They are of every hue. Nature 

 made them to show her colors with. There are as many 

 as there are colors and shades. In certain lights, as yes- 

 terday against the snow, nothing can be more splendid 

 and celestial than the color of the bluebird. 



