86 EVERYDAY BIRDS 



tail and wings; the bobolink; the red-winged 

 blackbird, whose watery conkaree is so welcome 

 a sound about the meadows in March ; the slate- 

 colored snowbird ; the indigo-bird, small, deep blue 

 throughout, and with a thick bill ; the butcher- 

 bird, a constant though not numerous winter vis- 

 itor, sometimes flying against windows in which 

 canaries are hung, as one did at our house only 

 this winter these surely may be known by any 

 who will take even slight pains to form their 

 acquaintance. And, beside these, there are two 

 birds whom everybody does know, but whom I 

 forgot to include with the six first mentioned, 

 the catbird and the brown thrasher, two over- 

 grown, long-tailed wrens, near relatives of the 

 mockingbird, both of them great singers in their 

 way, and one of them the catbird decidedly 

 familiar and a fairly good mimic. 



