. Bombay ducks; an account of some of the every-day birds and beasts found in a naturalist's Eldorado . BULBUI. (red vented). KED WHISKEKKI) INDIAN SONG-BIRDS 297 no sympathy with the cross-grained old poet who spokeof the leud Cuckoo and said, I pray to God will fireher bren. Rather would I cry with Wordsworth— O Cuckoo ! shall I call thee bird ?Or but a wandering voice ? Darling of the spring. No bird : but an invisible thing— A voice or mystery. The European cuckoo visits India. I have neverheard it in the south of the peninsula, but others havebeen more fortunate. From April to Jun
. Bombay ducks; an account of some of the every-day birds and beasts found in a naturalist's Eldorado . BULBUI. (red vented). KED WHISKEKKI) INDIAN SONG-BIRDS 297 no sympathy with the cross-grained old poet who spokeof the leud Cuckoo and said, I pray to God will fireher bren. Rather would I cry with Wordsworth— O Cuckoo ! shall I call thee bird ?Or but a wandering voice ? Darling of the spring. No bird : but an invisible thing— A voice or mystery. The European cuckoo visits India. I have neverheard it in the south of the peninsula, but others havebeen more fortunate. From April to June the Hima-layas resound with its familiar call. The bird is there,as in England, the harbinger of spring. A Himalayanstation in springtime is a sight for the gods. It is aparti-coloured island cast in a magenta sea, for therhododendrons are in bloom. The spiraea hedgerowshave felt the touch of spring; their snowy flowers havecome forth in such abundance as to obliterate thefoliage. The horse-chestnut trees have awakened fromtheir long winter sleep; they have opened out theiremerald fans, and over these profuse Natu
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