OVEN BIRD 



May 19, 1893 

 May 6, 1894 

 May, 1895 

 April 29, 1896 



I ALWAYS see the oven bird here in 

 the village in the spring migration, and 

 usually in the fall also, but in summer it 

 takes to the thick woods, where its loud 

 remarkable "whip-tee" can be heard rat- 

 tled off with great energy at almost any 

 hour of the day. In June, 1894, Edith 

 Skeele and I found a young oven bird sit- 

 ting serenely on a branch while the parent 

 bird shouted in vigorous tones in the neigh- 

 borhood. But the little bird was not at 

 all afraid of us, and ate some large worms 

 which we presented to it. 



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