. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . idgway who had ample opportunity to study it in Illinois and the extreme West,and who has done more than anyone else to bring the bird into well-deservedprominence. He says: This song is composed of a series of chants, each sylla-ble rich, loud and clear, interrupted with emotional trills. At the beginning thesong reminds one somewhat of that of the Indigo Bird (Passerina cyanea) butthe notes are louder and more metallic, and their delivery more vigorous. Thoug
. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . idgway who had ample opportunity to study it in Illinois and the extreme West,and who has done more than anyone else to bring the bird into well-deservedprominence. He says: This song is composed of a series of chants, each sylla-ble rich, loud and clear, interrupted with emotional trills. At the beginning thesong reminds one somewhat of that of the Indigo Bird (Passerina cyanea) butthe notes are louder and more metallic, and their delivery more vigorous. Thoughseemingly hurried, it is one continuous gush of sprightly music; now gay, nowmelodious, and then tender beyond description—the very expression of intervals the singer falters, as if exhausted by exertion, and his voice becomesscarcely audible; but suddenly reviving in his joy, it is resumed in all its vigor,until he appears to be really overcome by the effort. This bird more frequently than others is found singing in the middle of thevery hottest davs in summer. At such times his tremulous song comes to the ear 774. 585 LARK SPAKKOWAbout Life-size. COPTRIGMT 1903, St A. W. MUMFORO, CHICAGO like the piirgling of sweet \vater>. Next after the I would accord himthe highest j)!ace in song among all sparrows. The accompanying illustration tells the story of nest aiid eggs perhaj)S betterthan words. It is worth while to note that the i)icture was taken at .McConnels-ville. in Morgan County, which must he (juite near the limit of the birds presentrange. Dr. Wheaton first recorded the Lark Sparrow as an Ohio bird in that time it has steadily increased in numbers, although it is nowhere acommon bird. Our Rose-Breasted Grosbeak By Edward B. Clark Here is a bird that tleserves words as line as its feathers. Our is a beauty, is a singer, is good tempered—and it eats potato bugs. We have a good many Grosbeaks—the gorgeous car
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