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spring, and remain with us until autumn, two very 

 thrush-like-looking warblers that most people would 

 in no way associate with the pretty pied and spotted 

 creatures that for a few days flit and flutter among 

 the trees. Their anatomy tells of their origin and 

 consanguinities near and remote, but to practical 

 folk they are not warblers like a redstart or a sum- 

 mer yellow bird ; yet to all of us they are superb 



Oven-bird. 



musicians. One of these pretty warblers is the 

 oven-bird, so called from the manner of its nesting ; 

 the other is the water-thrush. Both are intelligibly 

 named, and the latter is not so excessively rare in 

 this locality as has been asserted. The oven-bird, 

 in a soft brown suit with greenish lustre, its mo- 

 notony relieved by streaks and spots of black, is 

 much of the time a strictly woodland bird, although 

 I have known of marked exceptions. It is a small 



