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'AOOLOGY 



The fiimily of wood-warblers is the peculiar glor)^ of 

 America. It contains numerous small, mostly brilliantly col- 

 ored liirds, which migrate. Although a few of them — like the 

 redstart, the :\Iaryland yellowthroat (Fig. 382), the rediDoll 



Fig. 370. — Podav waxwiiiiJ: {AmpcJi^ crdrunim) . 



warl)ler, the chestnut-sided warlder, and the 3'ellow warbler — 

 are abundant, few of the thirty-fi\'e or forty Eastern species can 

 be said to lie commonly known except to careful observers of 

 liirds ; for during the migrations they hide in thickets, and are 

 extremely shy. 



The wrens are characteristic of South America, but some have 



