104 BIRD-SONGS ABOUT WORCESTER. 



visited by crowds of people from the city, 

 the bobolink will have become tuneless, 

 but we hope that his music is appreciated 

 by the few fortunate enough to be already 

 here. Another bird, however, of a very 

 different temper from the bobolink's, the 

 whippoorwill, or the wish-ton-wish, as he 

 was called by the Indians, is heard every 

 evening from the village common, and 

 he will continue to emit throughout the 

 summer his weird, sepulchral cry for 

 the benefit of the visitors of July and 

 August. 



About Princeton his near congener, the 

 nighthawk, does not contest the field with 

 him, but leaves the whippoorwill to his 

 solitary glory. 



One of the handsomest and most musi- 

 cal of our wood-warblers, the tiny Mary- 

 land yellow-throat, which I had hardly 

 expected to find here in Princeton, as he 

 is generally found in low, swampy places, 

 is not uncommon, and his lively twittitee, 

 twittitee, twittitee, often greets my ear. 

 The black-and-white creeping-warbler is 



