86 EVERYDAY BIRDS 



tail and wings; the bobolink; the red-winged 

 blackbird, whose watery conkaree is so welcome 

 a sound about the meadows in March ; the slate- 

 colored snowbird ; the indigo-bird, small, deep blue 

 throughout, and with a thick bill ; the butcher- 

 bird, a constant though not numerous winter vis- 

 itor, sometimes flying against windows in which 

 canaries are hung, as one did at our house only 

 this winter — these surely may be known by any 

 who will take even shght pains to form their 

 acquaintance. And, beside these, there are two 

 birds whom everybody does know, but whom I 

 forgot to include with the six first mentioned, — 

 the catbird and the brown thrasher, two over- 

 grown, long-tailed wrens, near relatives of the 

 mockingbird, both of them great singers in their 

 way, and one of them — the catbird — decidedly 

 famihar and a fairly good mimic. 



