132 BIRD PARADISE 



does the sympathizer good whatever the effect 

 may be on the one that it is intended to reach. 



I am now receiving visits from the warblers 

 who have spent the summer in the far North. 

 The little worm eating warbler was the first to 

 pay his respects to the parson, and he did it 

 handsomely, as all his family do. I saw him 

 first gliding up one of the long limbs of the 

 larches. How easily he threaded his way, just 

 as much at home on the under side of the limb 

 as on the upper. Evidently it was his dinner 

 hour, the feast not limited in the least by time 

 or quantity. Curious how birds keep so well, 

 eating almost without intermission during the 

 day. I see by the books that this warbler is 

 given the range as far north as southern New 

 York. I wonder if the books are correct. The 

 birds I see answer to the description of the war- 

 bler in every particular and I see them only in 

 the fall and spring. I never have seen their 

 nests but am told they are built on the ground 

 and resemble very closely that of the oven bird. 

 It speaks in audible tones very seldom and at its 

 best uses but little that is very musical. My 

 visitor stayed an hour or two and I should think 



