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tures, mostly high up in the spiny limbs. Your 

 glass will bring them to your recognition as the 

 Black-throated Gray Warblers. This variety of 

 Warbler lives, feeds, and nests in those high 

 places over your head. This strange and far- 

 away habit will at the same time interest and 

 tease you, so beyond convenient range does it 

 take these tiny birds. Hard enough would it be 

 to see them well, were their restless bodies 

 nearer the earth. But are we not always more 

 curious about the creatures that are not near ? 



PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION. Head, black; yellow 

 spot in front of eye ; back, bluish-gray streaked with 

 black ; throat, black ; breast and under parts, white ; 

 sides, streaked with black. 



Female : Colors duller, and throat mixed somewhat 

 with white. 



Summer resident. 



THE LONG-TAILED CHAT. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION : 



All above, olive-gray ; long tail ; breast, bright 

 yellow ; under parts, white ; bill, rather long, 

 and upper mandible, curved. 

 Length, 7.5 inches. 



Found, usually, in and about thickets around swamps 

 and streams. 



