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was a most interesting trip, for while he could 

 recognize some of his old familiar 



FRIENDS AMONG THE FEATHERED SONGSTERS, 



the woods were filled with notes and calls entirely 

 new and unfamiliar, and even the songs like those 

 of the thrush, veery, and other equally well- 

 known birds differed from the songs these birds 

 sing further south in the swamps of Pennsylvania. 

 In the black spruce forest of this northern coun- 

 try a bird looker has little opportunity for identi- 

 fying the specimens with his field-glasses, for the 

 reason that the birds, as a rule, occupy high posi- 

 tions in the dark foliage near the top of the black 

 spruce and balsam trees, and when good luck has 

 won an opportunity to discover a songster the 

 glasses can only aid him to see 



THE UNDER PART OF THE BIRD, 



and a trip of a few hundred yards to one side or 

 the other of the old Indian trails, which are the 

 only paths in this wilderness, will reduce ordinary 

 clothing to tattered rags. After my first attempt 

 I went around camp in my under-garments while 

 the Indians patched my clothes. 

 This land is 



THE HOME OF THE WHITE-THROATED SPARROW, 



and alongside of the trail I found a nest made in 

 the dry grass in which was deposited one egg; both 

 egg and nest were so like the surroundings 



