. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. Taken in Ventura County Photo by Donald R. Dickey DINNER FOR FIVE The Western Lark Sparrow <-^^%, the purple of massed lilies, or the honest blue of ^^•^3 '" lupine, wave on wave. Little rounded chains of flanking hills descend with graceful sweep in cadences of green. Their sides, too, are faintly terraced with the concentric furrows of a thou- sand cattle trails now smothered in green. Grass is everywhere; but over it all is the pale glau
. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. Taken in Ventura County Photo by Donald R. Dickey DINNER FOR FIVE The Western Lark Sparrow <-^^%, the purple of massed lilies, or the honest blue of ^^•^3 '" lupine, wave on wave. Little rounded chains of flanking hills descend with graceful sweep in cadences of green. Their sides, too, are faintly terraced with the concentric furrows of a thou- sand cattle trails now smothered in green. Grass is everywhere; but over it all is the pale glaucous shimmer of the younger sages, vying with the accumulated grays of last year's flower-stalks. x\nd here and there, partially yet gracefully dis- tributed, are spaces dotted with the larger "sages," chamisal or eruptive Rhus, with their stronger note of stippled blue-green. A lazy country road skirts this scene of beauty; and, upon either side, its intermittent strand of fence-wire, sagging indolently, sup- ports a gallant crowd of the merriest, sweetest sparrows to be found in the whole glad realm. No, they are not a crowd, either, for although the Western Lark Spar- _ rows foregather here annually to pass y/ the season of courtship, and although \\JL\tf one may count a hundred of them in the length of a dozen panels, they are not animated to any considerable extent by flock impulses, nor does one think of them en masse. & Whether it be run- ning nimbly along the I ground, or leaping into the air to catch a risen I grasshopper, one feels in- I stinctively that here is a ' dainty breed. The bird endears itself, moreover, because of its fondness for 1 wayside fellowship. If you are on horseback, the Lark Sparrow, like the Horned Lark loves to trip ahead coquettishly along the dusty road, only to yield place at last to your insistent steed. Taken in Washington Photo by the Author A SAGE-BUSH NEST 237. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned pag
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