. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state. Birds -- Ohio. THE CEDAR WAXWING. eyes upon himâthose marvelous melting browns, those shifting saffrons and Ouaker drabs, those red sealing-wax tips on the wing-quills (he is canning cherries, you see,and co v| mes provided). Feast your eyes, I say, and carry the vision to M the table with / you, and a few less cher- ries. Or if there are f^ not enough for I you both, draw a decent breadth of mosquito- ll netting over I the tree, and absolve )⢠o u r soul of murder- ous intent. R
. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state. Birds -- Ohio. THE CEDAR WAXWING. eyes upon himâthose marvelous melting browns, those shifting saffrons and Ouaker drabs, those red sealing-wax tips on the wing-quills (he is canning cherries, you see,and co v| mes provided). Feast your eyes, I say, and carry the vision to M the table with / you, and a few less cher- ries. Or if there are f^ not enough for I you both, draw a decent breadth of mosquito- ll netting over I the tree, and absolve )⢠o u r soul of murder- ous intent. Remember, too, if you require self- j u s t i li ca- tion, thai lier in the seasi n he devoured an enormous quantity of canker worms and other simi- lar pests, so that he has a clear right to a share in the fruit of his labors. The Cedar-bird being so singularly endowed with the gift of beauty, is denied the gift ofsong. He is the must nearly voiceless of any of the American MR. C. II. MORRIS FURNISHED THE RAGS AND THE CEDAR-BIRD OscillCS, PUS SOfe llOte be- ing a high-pitched, sibilant squeak. Indeed, so high-pitched is this extraordinary note, that I find several of my friends cannot hear it at all, even when the Waxwings are squeaking all about them. It is an almost uncanny spectacle, that of a company of Waxwings sitting aloft in some leafless tree early in spring, erect, immovable, like soldiers on dress parade, but complaining to each other in that faint, penetrating mono- tone. It is as tho you had come upon a company of the Immortals, high-re- moved, conversing of matters too recondite for human ken. and who survey you the while with Olympian disdain. You steal away from the foot of the tree with a chastened sense of having encountered something not quite under- standable. The dilatorv habits of these birds are well shown in their nesting, which they put off until late June or July for no apparent reason. They build a thick- walled, well-set structure of weed-stalks,
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