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But when they are on their journeys in spring and autumn you will meet them almost everywhere, travelling in sociable flocks." "It must be that dark-backed bird with a yellow spot on his tail, that gobbles all the bayberries and eats the poison-ivy berries too," said Rap.
Doubtful if he shall think it the Genius of the ground or his father's ministrant, he slays, as is fit, two sheep of two years old, as many swine and dark-backed steers, pouring the while cups of wine, and calling on the soul of great Anchises and the ghost rearisen from Acheron.
Helbeck was conscious of it all; his eye and ear were on the watch for the signs of growth, and for the birds that haunted the river, the dipper on the stone, the grey wagtail slipping to its new nest in the bank, the golden-crested wren, or dark-backed creeper moving among the thorns.
"Yes, I see that you know him; 'that dark-backed bird with a yellow spot on his tail' is not a bad description of the Myrtle Warbler," said the Doctor; "at least, as you generally see it, in autumn or winter, when that particular spot is the only one of the four which shows off well." "But why is he called Myrtle Warbler?" asked Nat. "Does he build his nest in myrtle?
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