thus translated. In response to a whisted imitation of his 
notes, up came the singer, nearer and nearer, until he was 
recognized from a museum specimen. They could hear his. 
approach by the erackle of leaf and twig as he touched them 
with small feet or soft wings. Finally there he stood ona 
hazel branch, not one foot away from their faces. For a 
short time, brown eyes of bird gave a friendly glance into 
brown eyes of boy, each in fearless curiosity, and then away 
across the path went the wren still singing; but now it 
sounded like “Sweetheart! Sweetheart! Come! Come! Come! 
Come!” as one-two-three-four, other Seattle Wrens followed 
his guiding call. Evidently the strollers had encountered a 
Seattle family out for an evening airing, and they had whiled 
away some idle moments by satisfying a desire to know who 
else was out for a saunter. 
Once, while sitting on a porch, that like a nest hana 
out in the branches of a forest which runs or lies by the 
Sound, was heard another new song, which seemed to come 
from right, no—left,—above,—below? What could it be? 
Even when the opera glasses found an olive-brown restless 
creature which was investigating a brush heap, one could 
only catch him saying: “Whist! Whist! Whist! Whist!” One 
could easily make out the white stripe above each eye, the 
white tips and black bars of his impudent tail, and the long 
curving dark-brown bill, which was being continually poked 
into likely spots for insects, but as to his being the author of 
the medley of bird notes, it was impossible. Could it be that 
a Rusty Song Sparrow—no—an Oregon Towhee, was in hid- 
ing near? Finally, this warbler-sized mite turned so that 
watching his bill and throat in profile, one was able to see 
_ the music tumbling out through the waving throat and 
trembling bill; and it was found that a Seattle Wren has 
apparently a. power to place his voice wherever he happens 
to please. 
When the mood suggests it, he may mount to a suitable — 
spot in the spire of a young fir, and sing all the verses that 
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