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His whole name is or was till lately black-throated blue-backed warbler, or Dendroica coerulescens, and that being fairly set down for future reference for whom it may concern, I shall call him henceforth, as we did in the woods, the blue. For a day or two at first he was to us, like many another of his size, only a "wandering voice."
Their redstart also builds under the eaves of houses; their starling in church steeples and in holes in walls; several thrushes resort to sheds to nest; and jackdaws breed in the crannies of the old architecture, and this in a much milder climate than our own. They have in that country no birds that answer to our tiny, lisping wood-warblers, genus Dendroica, nor to our vireos, Vireonidoe.
He did it just for himself, and his motions as he flew over to the next tree seemed a visible chuckle that ended in a saucy flirt of the two white tall feathers which are one distinguishing mark of the bird in flight. Other warblers I noted none. The woods seemed given up for the occasion to Dendroica vigorsi.
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