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but their songs differ widely, and it was a great satis- 

 faction to enjoy the opportunity to listen to both songs 

 at the same time. But while the northern species was 

 yet hundreds of miles from its nesting grounds, the 

 Louisiana Waterthrush was quietly feeding half-grown 

 young in their cozy nook under roots protruding from 

 the banks of a creek. While the Kentucky Warbler seems 

 to prefer the lower levels of a valley or ravine, the Mary- 

 land Yellow-throat, its congener, finds a home wherever 

 there is a thicket to its taste, and is therefore much more 

 often heard along the hills than the other, but both are 

 plentiful. 



One of the most common sights and sounds met with 

 on our strolls, high and low, was the ''Chat" and its 

 almost human whistle. Being in the height of the love 

 season the execution of its flight song was a more common 

 occurrence. Wilson's Black Cap, a small, easily over- 

 looked, transient, but by no means rare in migration, was 

 several times the object of attention. Numerically strong 

 and generally distributed, was the Redstart, a breeder 

 in the region, but probably reinforced by the transient 

 individuals northward bound. Catbirds were not com- 

 mon, the Carolina Wren was noticed a few times, and 

 Bewick *s Wren several times in town and about farms, 

 never away from human habitation. As true and not 

 uncommon denizens of the woods, we have to mention the 

 Carolina Nuthatch, the Tufted Tit, and Carolina Chicka- 

 dee. Rather unexpected, because late in the season, was 

 the appearance of a Ruby-crowned Kinglet, travelling 

 leisurely in company of our late Warblers, the Black-cap 

 and Tennessee. 



One of the most interesting woodland birds is the Gnat- 

 catcher, or Polioptila-, though nowhere common, it is so 

 well distributed through the state that we find its curious 

 nest in a bald cypress over the water of the St. Francis, 

 as likely as in a post oak on a ridge of the Ozarks. 

 Though already with family cares, and not at leisure to 



