OUR HOME BIRDS. 
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six inches long, and his prevailing tint is a rich yel- 
low-olive. 
“ * This is also a migratory species, arriving in 
Pennsylvania late in April, and leaving us again 
in September. It is altogether an inhabitant of the 
woods, runs along the ground like a lark, and even 
along the horizontal branches, frequently moving its 
tail in the manner of the wagtails. It has no song, 
but a shrill energetic twitter formed by the rapid 
reiteration of two notes for a quarter of a minute at 
a time. It builds a snug, somewhat singular, nest 
on the ground in the woods, generally on a declivity 
facing the south. This is formed of leaves and dry 
grass, and lined with hair. Though sunk below the 
surface, it is arched over, and only a small hole left 
for the entrance ; the eggs are four in number, some- 
times five, white, irregularly spotted with reddish- 
brown, chiefly near the great end. 
“ ‘ When this bird is alarmed it escapes from the 
nest with great silence and rapidity, running along the 
ground like a mouse, as if afraid to tread too heavily 
on the leaves ; if you stop to examine the nest, it also 
stops, droops its wings, flutters, and tumbles along, 
as if hardly able to crawl, looking back now and 
then to see whether you are taking notice of it. If 
you slowly follow, it leads you fifty or sixty yards 
off in a direct line from its nest, seeming at every 
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