. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . -, ■^^ait for me, wait for me, if he thinksthe bigger children are trying to give him the slip. I have watched a pairof them tagging a Nuthatch about from tree to tree as faithfully as a braceof BROAVN CREEPERCrlhla /.uinlinr,-: <,„„r,.„ Life-size THE MOCKINGBIRD. 251 Yet he too has his Httle pleasures. One bug is not quite Hke another inbugginess, so that any bark rift may render up some entomological curiosityrare of form and gustable of juice. And when the lush da
. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . -, ■^^ait for me, wait for me, if he thinksthe bigger children are trying to give him the slip. I have watched a pairof them tagging a Nuthatch about from tree to tree as faithfully as a braceof BROAVN CREEPERCrlhla /.uinlinr,-: <,„„r,.„ Life-size THE MOCKINGBIRD. 251 Yet he too has his Httle pleasures. One bug is not quite Hke another inbugginess, so that any bark rift may render up some entomological curiosityrare of form and gustable of juice. And when the lush days of springtimecome, even this understrapper gets giddy and rushes out into space, jerkinghither and thither in an aerial frenzy and cutting the most absurd figures:after which he comes back to his bark, beaming and panting, and expectingthe plaudits of an admiring world. This spirited performance proves highlvsatisfactory to at least one witness, and prepares the way for that domestic joyin the Northland, which is nnt denied the humblest, and which lifts all mortalsto an equal plane. While with us the Creeper rarely sings, and its ordinary mites, chip andtscep, tseep. or creep, creep, cree, cree. require careful distinctidu fromthose of the Golden-crowned Kinglet: Init in its breeding haunts it is said
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