. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . es hiding, and disappears mysteriously behind a bunch of minute, two, three, are allowed to elapse. Ah, that means a nest, says theshrewd obser\er; and he moves forward with becoming caution. But the birdis up and otT in a trice, and flies down ilic glen without an apparent pang. .\search is made, half-heartedly, with the old result—^nothing but leaves. Wherever the nest is to be found (there be those who claim to know, butthe author is not one of the
. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . es hiding, and disappears mysteriously behind a bunch of minute, two, three, are allowed to elapse. Ah, that means a nest, says theshrewd obser\er; and he moves forward with becoming caution. But the birdis up and otT in a trice, and flies down ilic glen without an apparent pang. .\search is made, half-heartedly, with the old result—^nothing but leaves. Wherever the nest is to be found (there be those who claim to know, butthe author is not one of them), one thing is sure, the bin! regards himself astrustee of the whole glen, and his watchful fidelity is imi)artially bestowed uponall parts of it. If you become especially interested in any one spot,—lor reasonsbest known to yourself—why of course he and his wife can go elsewhere; andthey move oft, sniffing loftily. Every half hour or so the male bird ranges thelength of the glen. Now he dashes like a swallow across soiue open glade. Nowhe pauses on a log or stone; alternately moving and inspecting until his voice is 422. lost in the distance. You may be near his nest, but he does not deign to noticeyou, further than to give vent to a disdainful huuiph in passing. The song of the resident water thrush is one of our choice things. Thebird has found the Pierian spring, tucked away somewhere among our hills—in ]^Iorgan County, I think—and has tasted to good advantage. Its notes arewild and ringing clear, but sweet also as honey which the wild bees have is a tumultuous passage in it too, which may occupy only the middle por-tion or may engulf the whole. At times the singers main force seems to beexpended in the opening, peals, so that it almost instantly falls back into a mildercadence or bubbling twitter, in which its warbler affinities are quickly recognized. As to its platform the musician is not so particular. Usually a free branchfrom ten to twenty feet
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