. Birds in literature . INCH, PURPLE. PURPLE LINNET His color is peculiar, and looks as if it might have beenimparted by dipping a brown bird in diluted poke-berryjuice. Two or three more dippings would have made thepurple complete. Burroughs. Wake Robin.^ His song is a sweet flowing warble; music as naturalas the rippling of a mountain brook. Chapman. Bird Life.^ The caged linnet in the spring Hearkens for the coral glee,When his fellows on the mng Migrate from the Southern Sea. Emerson. FLICKER. GOLDEN-WINGED WOODPECKER The golden-mnged is a woodpecker of thirty-six aliases,among which pigeo
. Birds in literature . INCH, PURPLE. PURPLE LINNET His color is peculiar, and looks as if it might have beenimparted by dipping a brown bird in diluted poke-berryjuice. Two or three more dippings would have made thepurple complete. Burroughs. Wake Robin.^ His song is a sweet flowing warble; music as naturalas the rippling of a mountain brook. Chapman. Bird Life.^ The caged linnet in the spring Hearkens for the coral glee,When his fellows on the mng Migrate from the Southern Sea. Emerson. FLICKER. GOLDEN-WINGED WOODPECKER The golden-mnged is a woodpecker of thirty-six aliases,among which pigeon-woodpecker, joicker, high-hole, high-holder, clape, and yellow-hammer are locally familiar. A very ardent and ridiculous-looking lover is this bird,as, with tail stiffly spread, he sidles up to his desired mateand bows and bobs before her, then retreats and advances,bowing and bobbing again, very often with a rival loverbeside him trying to outdo him in grace and general at-tractiveness. Blanchan. Bird Neighbors.^^ 66. Flicker. Golden-Winged Woodpecker A marked April note, proceeding sometimes from themeadows, but more frequently from the rough pasturesand borders of the woods, is the call of the high-hole or golden-shafted woodpecker It is a succession of short notes rapidly uttered, as if the bird said, if-if-if-if-if-if-if. .... The high-hole is not so much a wood-pecker as a ground-pecker. He subsists largely on antsand crickets, and does not appear till they are to be found. Burroughs. Birds and ^^ How that single sound peoples and enriches all thewoods and fields! They are no longer the same fields andwoods that they were. This note really quickens whatwas dead. It seems to put life into the withered grassand bare twigs and henceforth the days shall not be asthey have been. It is like the note of an alarm clockset last fall so as to wake nature up at exactly this date,Up, up, up, up, up, up, up. Thoreau. ^^ Audubon describes its song as & prolonged jovial
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