1 70 BIRDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN 



the Garden, thus promenading the public 

 street. The demure, leisurely walk of the 

 Oven-bird, often taken at little distance 

 from the observer, makes it an easy bird to 

 identify as it moves under the budding 

 lower branches of the great beeches or 

 about the stocks of a cluster of shrubs. 



Repeatedly when a bird has remained 

 several days, it has been found morning 

 by morning in the small section of the 

 grounds where it was seen on the first day, 

 seeming to roam only within a very limited 

 area. So day after day, when it has been 

 looked for in this area, it has been at once 

 seen and for another day placed in the re- 

 cord. One such long-tarrying bird made the 

 fence line on Arlington Street near Beacon 

 Street its promenade and proceeded in its 

 moderate way back and forth under the 

 overhanging vines or about the near shrubs 

 day by day for seven days. I have walked 

 by this bird at only fifteen feat distance, 

 and it paid me no heed. 



