. The birds' calendar . bler, black-throatedblue, Maryland yellow-throat, golden-crownedwarbler, thrasher, and prairie warbler. Many an ornithologist throughout the coun-try can report a longer and more varied listfor April than mine, with its paucity of waterbirds, and with none of the game birds, nor ofthe birds of prey. But certainly in the fore-going record is ample subject-matter whereinto find either relaxation or instructive stimu-lus. It can hardly be doubted that far morewould make this pursuit an avocation, if theyrealized that the opportunities therefor lay soconveniently at hand. F
. The birds' calendar . bler, black-throatedblue, Maryland yellow-throat, golden-crownedwarbler, thrasher, and prairie warbler. Many an ornithologist throughout the coun-try can report a longer and more varied listfor April than mine, with its paucity of waterbirds, and with none of the game birds, nor ofthe birds of prey. But certainly in the fore-going record is ample subject-matter whereinto find either relaxation or instructive stimu-lus. It can hardly be doubted that far morewould make this pursuit an avocation, if theyrealized that the opportunities therefor lay soconveniently at hand. Flowers and birds areamong the winged ministrants, rather than 132 April among the stern task-masters, of abstruse nor profound, they are cer-tainly unexcelled among the works of naturefor affording a restful modulation of thought,and for quickly resolving a tangled state ofmind from discord into harmony. 133 May Airs, vernal airs,Breathing the smell of field and grove, attuneThe trembling leaves. MAY HE success of the naturalist dependsfar less upon his area of observationthan would be commonly he looks is of less importancethan how he looks, and the experienced eyewill often glean a rich harvest from apparentlymost unpromising fields. Ones range of re-search is usually determined by circumstancesrather than by preference; and in either caseunfamiliar surroundings will, in a measure, dis-tract his attention from the objects he is im-mediately seeking, while increasing familiaritywith the place leaves the mind freer for itswork, and gives quicker discernment of all thetreasures hidden within it, until at last it mayprove a very prolific field of investigation. Itwill rarely occur, however, that one will cometo have such confidence in its boundless re-sources as to feel that complacent admirationwhich Thoreau cherished for his favorite haunts,of whom it is recorded that on one occasion he 137 The Birds Calendar returned Kanes Arctic Voyages
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