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stood a male cardinal and a male nonpareil. 

 Perhaps they were not a glorious pair ! Them 

 also I shall rememher, along vdth the miraculous 

 bluebird. 



Less brilliant, but even more memorable, was 

 my one Bachman's warbler. I had stopped under 

 a live-oak, — on a return from the big hammock, 

 — and was putting my glass upon one bird after 

 another feeding among its blossoms (parulas, 

 yellow-throats, ruby-crowns, gnatcatchers, and 

 myrtle-birds), when in the very topmost spray I 

 sighted a spot of coal-black set in bright yellow. 

 Here was something new. From twig to twig 

 the stranger went, — rather deliberately, for a 

 warbler, — the glass following, till after submit- 

 ting for perhaps ten minutes to my eager inspec- 

 tion he slipped away, as birds have a knack of 

 doing, without my seeing him go. However, he 

 had shown himself perfectly — the jet breastplate, 

 the yellow forehead, the black crown, the lustrous 

 ohve of the upper parts, and the yellow patch 

 upon the wing. He was a bird that I had never 

 expected to see. Comparatively few ornitholo- 

 gists have been so happy. 



This was on March 7. For two days we had 

 noticed indications of a migratory movement, 

 especially among parulas and yellow-throated 

 warblers. Probably the Bachman had come 



