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THE NORTHERN YELLOW -THROAT. 



is concealing an amused smile behind that inscrutable black mask, and that 

 he is poking fun at you for awkwardness and stupidity, of which you know 

 }'0U are guilty, as you stumble about through the thicket in the wake of the 



ret re a ting 

 mocker. 

 There is no 

 reaso n able 

 doubt that 

 the bird de- 

 lights in a 

 game of hide- 

 and-seek and 

 that he shows 

 himself from 

 time to time 

 just far 

 enough 

 ahead to 

 keep up the 

 tantalizing 

 play. But if 

 3^ou are wise 

 enough to 

 give it up the 

 bird will 

 presently 

 hop out 

 squarely into 

 the open to 

 look at you. 

 Thus life's 

 truest pleas- 

 ures come 

 unsought. 



The Yel- 

 low-throats 

 arrive from 

 the south 

 sometime 

 during the 

 last week in 

 April, and thencef(jrth wherever there are willow-thickets Ijordering streams, 



Taken in Fronklin Cuunty. Photo by the Author. 



WITKUK YKIJ.OW-'rilROATS I'I,.'\Y T-JF DIvAND-SKEK. 



