UNDER THE APPLE-TREES 
With tail slightly raised and spread, and wings a 
little drooping, he springs and swoops here and 
there in the trees—a bit of black holding and 
momentarily revealing a flame of orange. Redstart 
is a good name for him, as we see his colors only 
when he is in motion. Note our other black-and- 
orange bird, the Baltimore oriole; its color is con- 
spicuous while the bird is at rest. Another bril- 
liantly colored bird, the scarlet tanager, is seen 
from afar when quietly perched. He shows amid 
the green leaves like a burning coal; and his mo- 
tions are all slow and deliberate when contrasted with 
those of the redstart. The latter is a fly-catcher, 
or insect-catcher, and his movements are neces- 
sarily sudden and rapid. 
The birds are quite likely to go in troops in late 
summer or early fall, different species apparently 
being drawn along by a common impulse. 
While the robins and the hermit thrush are among 
the choke-cherries, a family of indigo-birds, five or 
six of them, all of the brown color of the mother 
bird, are grouped around the mother on a flat stone 
for half a minute, being fed. It is a pretty little 
tableau. The father bird with his bright plumage 
is not in evidence. In one of the trees another 
warbler which I cannot identify, with an olive 
back and a yellow front, is in a great hurry about 
its own business. One little olive-green warbler, 
doubtless a young bird, comes and perches on the 
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