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Some sea-birds were spreading their white breasts and wing-linings like flashes of silver against shifting vapor. The party descended to a wrinkle in the land which would be dry at ebb-tide. Now it held a stream flowing inland upon grass unshriveled long grass bowed flat and sleeked to this daily service.
He was a beauty, even for his lovely family, and the rose color of his wing-linings was the most gorgeous I ever saw. Moreover, I knew this bird, later, to be as useful as he was beautiful.
Male: black on the head, back, wings, and tail; the belly, rump, several spots on the wings, and three outer tail-feathers, white; rose-colored breast and wing-linings; bill white and very heavy. Female: streaked brownish above and below, without any rosy color, but orange-yellow under the wings; she looks like an overgrown Sparrow with a swelled face.
Length seven and a half inches much more than any other Warbler measures. Upper parts bright olive-green, even all over. Lower parts very bright yellow on the throat, breast, and wing-linings, but the belly pure white. A strong dark-colored beak, with some dark and light marks between it and the eyes.
Some think he is called the Flicker because he has a way of flicking his wings, and the Yellow Hammer because he hammers on trees with the beak and has fine golden wing-linings. The nest of the one you saw is in a hole, high up in the old sassafras by the side fence, and some say that this is why another of his names is High-hole.
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