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BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER. 



I always think of this bird as an old friend, for it was the first 

 one of the warblers I saw in the flesh and the first I learned to re- 

 cognize by its song. It was also the subject of my first lesson in 

 field-work — the systematic study of the bird-life about my home. I 

 had supposed that I knew a great aeai about the birds, almost all 

 there was to be learned, until one day I chanced upon what 

 proved to be a black-throated green warbler. It was a revelation 

 to me. Such colors, I thought, were seen only on tropical birds, 

 and this feathered gem seemed quite at home, though its nest was 

 built within sight of the Bay of Fundy. 



I had determined to make an exact list of the birds nesting in the 

 suburbs of St. John, and l)egan my inspection in the early dawn of 

 a June morning. As I approached the wooded hills that overlook 



