. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . even in cultivated distridts, inswamps and boggy places with a rich peaty soil. Very frequently theseswamps are found surrounded by fields and meadows or on the borders of many years ago a heavy growth of white cedars, tamaracks, and ash-trees coveredthese swampy tradls. Most of the trees were cut down, only small specimens being leftundisturbed. There is, during the entire sum
. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . even in cultivated distridts, inswamps and boggy places with a rich peaty soil. Very frequently theseswamps are found surrounded by fields and meadows or on the borders of many years ago a heavy growth of white cedars, tamaracks, and ash-trees coveredthese swampy tradls. Most of the trees were cut down, only small specimens being leftundisturbed. There is, during the entire summer, something fascinating about these swamps—their exceedingly beautiful flora, their gloom in daylight, their freshness in the drydays of July and August, their rich bird-life, their ever-present mystery. The places onceoccupied by large forest trees are now taken up by elders, w^illows, exceedingly beautifulspecimens of the red osier^, the kinnikinnik^, the panicled dogwood, the sheep-berry*,the black-haw, and other shnibs. The leather-wood, huckle-berries of various species, 1 Cornus stolonifera. 2 Cornus serlcea. 8 Cornus paaiculata. * Viburnum lentago. n Viburnum Dirca J. AMIr:RICANA Cab. 2. HELMINTIIOPHILA PINUS Rido^v. 3. MiYIOTJLTA VARIA Vieill. 4. HELMINTHOPHILA CHRYSOPTRRA Rid^w 5. UELMITIIERLS VERMIVORUS Bp. MEISENSANGER. BLAUFLUGELSANGER. KLETTERSANGER. GOLDFLLJGELSANGER. WURMSANGER. Parula V\^ed and white ^ Warbler GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER. 185 the aromatic black currant\ the cranberry, the wild goose-berry^, and the winterberry, are also more or less common. Ferns revel in this black spongy soil, andso does the common meadow sweet*, the scouring rush^, and a large number of swampgrasses. The wild balsam*, the swamp butterfly weed^ and the poke milk weed,grow in rank luxuriance. The gorgeous cardinal-flower shows in midsummer the mostvivid red of the ye
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