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Soon another showed himself, and presently 

 it appeared that the wood, as men speak of 

 such things, was full of them. There were 

 black-polls, also, with a Blackburnian, a bay- 

 breast, and a good number of palm warblers, 

 (typical 'palmarum^ to judge from the pale 

 tints); but especially there were Cape Mays, 

 including at least two females. As to the 

 number of males it is impossible to speak ; 

 I never had more than two under my eye 

 at once, but I came upon them continually, 

 — they were always in motion, of course, 

 being warblers, — till finally, as I put my 

 glass on another one, I caught myself say- 

 ing, in a tone of disaj^pointment, " Only a 

 Cape May." But yesterday I might as well 

 have spoken of a million dollars as " only a 

 million." So soon does novelty wear off. 

 The magnolia and the Blackburnian were in 

 high feather, and made a gorgeous pair as 

 chance brought them side by side in the 

 same tree. They sang with much freedom ; 

 but the Cape Mays kept silence, to my deep 

 regret, notwithstanding the philosophical 

 remarks just now volunteered about the ad- 

 vantages derivable from a bird's gradual 

 disclosure of himself. Such pieces of wis- 



