. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . and fears ofthe worlds night; but now and again the invincible sun found some tiny riftand poured a flood of tender gold upon a favored spot where stood some solitarytree or expectant sylvan company. Along the river bank all was still. Therewere no signs of spring save for the modest springing violet and the pious buck-eye, shaking its late-prisoned fronds to the morning air, and tidily setting inorder its manifold array of Easter candles. The oak trees were gr
. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . and fears ofthe worlds night; but now and again the invincible sun found some tiny riftand poured a flood of tender gold upon a favored spot where stood some solitarytree or expectant sylvan company. Along the river bank all was still. Therewere no signs of spring save for the modest springing violet and the pious buck-eye, shaking its late-prisoned fronds to the morning air, and tidily setting inorder its manifold array of Easter candles. The oak trees were gray andhushed, and the swamp elms held their peace until the fortunes of the morningshould be decided. Suddenly from down the riverpath there came a tiny burstof angel music, the peerless song of the Ruby-crown. Pure, ethereal, without hintof earthly dross or sadness, came those limpid, swelling notes, the sweetest andthe gladdest ever sung—at least by those who have not sufifered. It was not,indeed, the greeting of the earth to the risen Lord, but rather the annunciationof the glorious fact by heavens own appointed herald. 198. RUBY-CROWNED Life-size. MUMFOnO, CHICAGO The Ruby-crowned Kinglet has something of the nervousness and vivacityof the typical wren. It moves restlessly from twig to twig, flirting its wingswith a motion too quick for the eye to follow, and frequently uttering a titterof alarm, chit-tit or chit-it-it. During migrations the birds swarm through thetree-tops like warblers, but are oftener found singly or in small companies inthickets or open clusters of saplings. In such situations they exhibit more orless curiosity, and if one keeps reasonably still he is almost sure to be inspectedfrom a distance not exceeding four or five feet. It is here, too, that the malesare found singing in the spring. The bird often begins sotto voce with two orthree high squeaks, as though trying to get the pitch down to the range of mortalears before he gives his f
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