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by [[underline]]oo e so[[/underline]] coming the bushes at one side. It had a queer ventriloqual quality that made it hard to place. I went softly along peering into every bush and finally looking up saw - a male Cowbird sitting on a limb giving the notes about thirty feet off! I wonder whatever possesses them to give the strange notes. He flew off fairly laughing at having outwitted me.

Then a strange bird flew up ahead of me and lit in a bush for an instant. At first glance i took for D. Pensylvanica but then I noticed some black on its head and followed it up until I obtained the following description:

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Crown yellow; chin and cheeks black; back grayish Blue; yellow patch on wing; rest of underparts white. When I got home I learned that it was a male Golden-winged Warbler. It was very secretive and hunted about the bases of the gooseberry bushes. When startled it flew from one cover to another without alighting in sight for an instant. Once or twice when it came out of its own accord it lit in a small tree for an instant before going to the next feeding ground. Frequently I saw it hanging head down from a twig getting insects from among the leaves which had caught among the stems of the bushes. Then it hunted around on the ground. It was quite restless.