JEWELS IN THE STREET. 



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considered rare north of Massachusetts, but I have 

 occasionally found him about Concord. He is easily 

 distinguished by his large size and the pronounced 

 reddish tint of the head and shoulders. The hermit 

 and the olive-backed thrush are seen here by good ob- 

 servers. The best known member of this fascinating 

 family is the veery, whose smooth, uniformly tawny 

 coat I have seen many times this spring, both in town 

 and out. 



It has not been necessary to go far a-field to see 

 the birds this May. The redstart, which looks like a 

 burnt orange or gold robin on a small scale, has flown 

 into open doors at the North End. His mate, who 

 wears olive brown and sulphur yellow in place of her 

 lord's black and flame color, puzzled me very much a 

 few years ago till I discovered that the blotched mark- 

 ings and spread f antails of the two sexes are identical. 

 The scarlet tanager has been a familiar visitor in 

 many yards, while the black-masked Maryland yel- 

 low-throat, who cries 6 6 What a pity!" and some of 

 the other warblers, have fairly haunted our shrubbery. 



In our own back yard on May 21 I saw the mag- 

 nolia warbler investigating every spray of a large 

 woodbine which covers the shed. On May 22 and for 

 two succeeding days the beautiful Canadian warbler 



