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Citizen Bird

CHAPTER XII
14/20

I put my finger in and another bird, just like the first, flew out, and I saw that there were eggs there; so I drove a stick in the ground to mark the place, and went away.
"The miller said it must be a field-mouse's nest that some birds had stolen.

But in the fall I took the nest home and I saw it was a real bird's nest, all woven round of strong grass with finer kinds for a lining; and there were dead leaves on the outside, so that the top looked like all the rest of the ground.

I had often heard that loud singing before, but this was the first time I had a good look at the bird and his nest, and the miller won't believe now that it's a bird's nest either." "What trade does the Ovenbird belong to ?" asked Dodo.

"He ought to be a baker if he lives in an oven." "He is a Ground Gleaner and a Tree Trapper," said the Doctor, while the children laughed merrily at Dodo's idea of a baker bird.
The Ovenbird Length about six inches.
Upper parts frog green, with a rusty-yellow streak between two black lines on the crown.
Lower parts white, with black streaks on the breast and sides.
A Summer Citizen as far west as Kansas and north to Alaska, wintering far south.
THE MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT "Now we come to three very jolly Warblers with bright feathers and perfectly distinct ways of their own.

They are the Maryland Yellow-throat, the Yellow-breasted Chat, and the American Redstart.


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