Fawcett, Edgar To an Oriole 

 Howells, W. D. Song the Oriole sings 

 Lowell, J. R. The Oriole 

 ♦Thompson, Maurice Spring's torch-bearer 

 Wilson, Alexander The Baltimore bird 



Yellow Wakbler 265 652 



Called also Summer Warbler and Summer Yellow Bird; 

 very valuable in destroying insects ; builds a neatly woven nest 

 in trees, often in orchard and lawn. 



House Wren 300 721 86 



Called Short-tailed House Wren ; a wholly useful bird ; has 

 a peculiar rattling song. 



Cary, Phoebe The envious Wren 



Three Wrens 

 Craik, D. M. The Wren's nest 

 Wordsworth, William The Wren's nest 



Redeyed ViKEO 247 624 122 



A very common woodland bird; with a striking song; sus- 

 pends nest in horizontal crotch of a tree. 



Warbling Vireo 249 627 96 



Called also Warbling Greenlet; first observed among the 

 elms, cottonwoods, and sycamores along streams, its favorite 

 home all season. 



Lampman, Archibald To the Warbling Vireo 



Wood Thrush 314 755 49 



Nests on horizontal branch or fork of low tree or bush, 

 using mud, leaves, weeds, and twigs; sweetest singer known 

 to our forests. 



This is the only bird whose note affects me like music. He launches 

 forth one strain of pure unmatchable melody and then pauses. It 

 changes all hours to an eternal morning. Whenever a man hears it he 

 is young and nature is in her spring. Thoreau 



*Davis, Hannah The Wood Thrush 

 Newkirk, Garrett The Wood Thrush 



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