Only three species of warblers app

[Mcminn]

Plendid coat, which he is too consistent a dandy to put off for one of a
duller shade, let the season shift as it will. He is not always
good-natured; but none the less he is generally in good spirits (he
seems to enjoy his bad temper), and, all in all, is not to be lightly
esteemed in a time when bright feathers are scarce. As for the jay's
sable relatives, they are the most conspicuous birds in the winter
landscape. You may possibly walk to Brookline and back without hearing a
chickadee, or a blue jay, or even a goldfinch; but you will never miss
sight and sound of the crows. Black against white is a contrast hard to
be concealed. Sometimes they are feeding in the street, sometimes
stalking about the marshes; but oftenest they are on the ice in the
river, near the water's edge. For they know the use of friends, although
they have never heard of Lord Bacon's "last fruit of friendship," and
would hardly understand what that provident philosopher meant by saying
that "the best way to represent to life the manifold use of friendship
is to cast and see how many things there are which a man cannot do
himself." How aptly their case illustrates the not unusual coexistence
of formal ignorance with real knowledge! Having their Southern brother's
fondness for fish without his skill in catching it, they adopt a plan
worthy of the great essayist himself,--they court the society of the
gulls; and with a temper eminently philosophical, not to say Baconian,
they cheerfully sit at their patrons' second table. From the Common you
may see them almost any day (in some seasons, at least) flying back and
forth between the river and the harbor. One morning in early
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