. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . ees were almost entirely cleared away, and thickets of hazel bushes, blackhaws, high bush cranberry shrubs, witch hazel, red branched dogwood, wild gooseberryshrubs, and dense masses of raspberry and blackberry bushes had sprung up. The manyhalf rotten stumps were full of holes occupied by the ever active Nuthatches andChickadees, by Flickers and Red-headed Woodpeckers. Bronzed Grackles
. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . ees were almost entirely cleared away, and thickets of hazel bushes, blackhaws, high bush cranberry shrubs, witch hazel, red branched dogwood, wild gooseberryshrubs, and dense masses of raspberry and blackberry bushes had sprung up. The manyhalf rotten stumps were full of holes occupied by the ever active Nuthatches andChickadees, by Flickers and Red-headed Woodpeckers. Bronzed Grackles were exceed-ingly common in the swamp, while the dense thickets surrounding it appeared to bethe very paradise of Indigo Buntings, Catbirds, Thrashers, Yellow Warblers, Song andSwamp Sparrows and Vireos. An old log fence, which separated this part of the farm from the adjoining woods,was converted into a picture of beauty by wild grape-vines and the Virginia of the thickets were covered by climbing plants, such as moonseed*, virginsbower ^, and honey-suckles *. In May and June this locality was exceedingly beautiful, I Menispermum Canadensc. 2 Clematis Virginiana, 3 L,onicera hirsuta. 1. PIRANGA KRYTHROMELAS Vieill. 2. 3. HABIA LUDOVICIANA Stojn S & 2 4. .5. PIPILO ERYTHROPHTHALMUS Vieill <J&2 _SCHARLACHTANGARA. _ Scarlet Tana^er . _ ROSENBRUSTIGER Rose breastecrGrosbeak , -ERDFINK. TOWHBE, OR CHBWINK. 171 and the lover of Nature could hardly strike a more secluded and interesting place forhis rambles. From the deep rich mould of decaying trees lying prostrate on the ground,immense specimens of ferns emerged. The twin-flower, the Jeffersonia^ the moccasinflower, the yellow ladys slipper*, the wintergreen and partridge berry^, the trientalisand bunch-berry flourished almost side by side. In some shady nooks large spaceswere covered by the deep green pine moss. Dogs-tooth violets, hepaticas, the springbeauty and blood-root
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