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far off—and this time it is his golden front he shows to yon. 
Brilliant yellow he is in his politer aspect, with black vel¬ 
vet streaks on his golden sides. And now you see one of 
these has aspired to something higher, and grows in¬ 
to a long crescent under his eye. Over the eye is a 
lighter yellow streak, and another black velvet streak 
goes through it. 
So far as I know this bird has not been reported from this 
region before, and had I not lived four summers a close 
neighbor, with daily visits to and from him, at Martha’s 
Vineyard I should never dare to report him officially now. 
With us in New England he is a lover of scrubby woods 
and sandy stretches where stunted bushes grow. In the 
densest of swampy tangles one looks for the Florida prairie 
warbler, even in nesting time, while those of the birds which 
come northward to nest prefer the dry, open scrub. 
The House Wren is another rare bird in this locality, 
and I gladly report him as being unmistakably visible on 
a low stone wall on the Weston Road. He ran up and 
down the stretch of stones several times for the benefit of 
his observers and then dived off into the bushes. A repeat¬ 
ed visit failed to reproduce him. 
The Prairie Warbler has been seen on four different occa¬ 
sions in almost the same spot on the Bedford Plains, (and 
heard on several other visits,)when I took some doubters 
down to see him. My last record of him is June 16. I 
have seen eight individuals there and heard several more. 
The Cliff or Eave Swallow is now a rare bird in this vic¬ 
inity and I had given him up as having forsaken us for a 
locality where farmers were not so tidy about their barns. 
June 19 I saw a dozen or more on Hanover Street near the 
Young Road, gathering mud for nest repairs, I suppose, 
for the books say that now is the time for the laying of a 
second set of eggs. Do these birds use the same nest for 
both broods? Eet him that knows answer. 
