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Green, Greenish Gray, Olive, and Yellowish Olive Birds ae “f) 
quented lane near a wood until their family i is sav en, 
a perceptibly happier strain in his voice, he once r 
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Ovenbird 
(Seiurus aurocapillus) Wood Warbler family 
Called also: GOLDEN-CROWNED THRUSH; THE TEACH HEF | 
“WOOD WAGTAIL; GOLDEN-CROWNED WAGTA 
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Length— to 6.15 inches. Just a shade smaller than the E 
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Male and Female—Upper parts olive, with an oran ze- ae n 
crown, bordered h black lines that converge tc : 
Under parts white; breast spotted and streaked 0 on the i 
White eye-ring. peas 
Range—United States, to Pacific slope. dee 
Migrations—May. October. Common summer essen? ye 
Early in May you may have the good fortune to see this li 
bird of the woods strutting in and out of the garden sk > 
with a certain mock dignity, like a child wearing its 1 at ne 
boots. Few birds can walk without appearing more or | 
ridiculous, and however gracefully and prettily it tes i 
amusing little wagtail is no exception. When seen at z nic 
is not often, for it is shy—it is usually on the pe 10 “s 
from the shrubbery or a woodland thicket, under which it W. 
quickly dodge out of sight at the merest suspicion of a 
To most people the bird is only a voice calling, “ oe < 
TEACHER, TEACHER, TEACHER, TEACHER!” as Mr. E Burrow 
has interpreted the notes that go off in pairs like a sis of 
explosions, softly at first, then louder and louder pag 
until the bird that you at first thought far away s 
shrieking his penetrating crescendo into your very e 
you may look until you are tired before you find him in h 
dry wood, never near water. or Be 
In the driest parts of the wood, here the ome 
carpeted with dead leaves, you may some day notice a little bu 
of them, that look as if a plant, in pushing its way up t 
the ground, had raised the leaves, rootlets, and twigs | 
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