o little
resemblance in color and habits to the true Wood Warblers, that one
might well think they were members of another family. Their plumage
lacks the bright colors, white wing-bars and tail-patches possessed by
most Warblers, and, instead of hopping and flitting from twig to twig,
they spend their time chiefly _walking_ on the ground, where they find
their food.

It is not so much its abundance as its song which makes the Oven-bird
well known. Years ago Mr. Burroughs wrote it, _teacher, teacher,
teacher, teacher, teacher_, and no one has improved on this description.
The Oven-bird also sings an ecstatic warbling on the wing; a thrilling
performance. The nest is built on the ground and, like a Dutch oven, is
roofed over with the entrance at one side. The eggs, laid in May, are
white, marked chiefly at the larger end with brown.

NORTHERN WATER-THRUSH

_Seiurus noveboracensis noveboracensis. Case. 8, Fig. 56_

Underparts white tinged with pale _yellow_,
everywhere--_including throat_--streaked with
black; no white in tail or wings. L. 6.

_Range._ Nests from northern New England to
Canada, south in the mountains, to West Virginia;
winters in the tropics.

Washington, common T.V., Apl. 22-June 2; July
21-Oct. 6. Ossining, tolerably common T.V., May
11-21; July 28-Oct. 3. Cambridge, abundant T.V.,
May 8-June 1; Aug. 10-Oct. 10. N. Ohio, common,
T.V., Apl. 26-May 25; Sept. 1-15.

The two Water-Thrushes and the Oven-bird are _walking_ Warblers, and the
Water-Thrushes, furthermore, are _teeterers_, nervously tipping tail and
body with apparently exhaustless energy. When migrating, the Northern
Water-Thrush often seeks refuge beneath the shrubbery of our lawns, but
when nesting it frequents the borders of streams in deep woods, building
its home on the ground or in the roots of an upturned tree. Its
call-note is a sharp _chink_; its song a hurried rush of loud musical
notes, closing abruptly. The 4-5 eggs, laid in the latter half of May or
early June, are white with numerous brown markings chiefly about the
larger end.

Grinnell's Water-Thrush (_S. n. notabilis_), a slightly larger and
darker form, nests in the Northwest and is casually found as a migrant
on the Atlantic coast.

LOUISIANA WATER-THRUSH

_Seiurus motacilla. Case 5, Fig. 5_

Line over eye and underparts white, the latter