. 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 wing Migrate from the Southern Sea. Emerson. FLICKER. GOLDEN-WINGED WOODPECKER The golden-winged is a woodpecker of thirty-six aUases,among which pige
. 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 wing Migrate from the Southern Sea. Emerson. FLICKER. GOLDEN-WINGED WOODPECKER The golden-winged is a woodpecker of thirty-six aUases,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.
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