Outing . p-piest just after a shower, when the rain-drops are breeze-shaken into the mellowgold of the sunlight and the woods arerefreshed. To me his voice has a liquidquality finer than that of any othersinger. Many a time I have been awak-ened by him at my window (the treesgrow thick about it), in the first rose ofthe dawn, and I could wish for no love- [524] lier aubade. And his song, too, is dis-tinctly musical as compared with thesongs of other birds. One catches thetune, as it were, directly and writes itmore easily from memory. It is a little singular how few peopleknow the vireo. His v
Outing . p-piest just after a shower, when the rain-drops are breeze-shaken into the mellowgold of the sunlight and the woods arerefreshed. To me his voice has a liquidquality finer than that of any othersinger. Many a time I have been awak-ened by him at my window (the treesgrow thick about it), in the first rose ofthe dawn, and I could wish for no love- [524] lier aubade. And his song, too, is dis-tinctly musical as compared with thesongs of other birds. One catches thetune, as it were, directly and writes itmore easily from memory. It is a little singular how few peopleknow the vireo. His very name soundsstrange to many who have a fair speak-ing acquaintance with other yet his note cannot fail to attractthe attention of anyone who has an earfor bird music. How often I have hada friend say on hearing him for the firsttime: What bird is that? The vireo?Well, thats a new bird to me! And all this in the old home of Audu-bon and in the woods where he walkedand loafed the days GULLS RESTING ON A TREE-TOP AT CLOSE RANGE THE CONQUEST OF NO MANS LAND BY HERBERT K. JOB State Ornithologist of ConnecticutPhotographs by the Author T would hardly seem possible in thisage of successful hunting with thecamera that a man could be setashore with a photographic outfit onan islet swarming with sea-birds,for the express purpose of takingtheir pictures, and yet fail to secure asingle one. I am ashamed to confess it,but yet, with the hope0ef!encbufagingdespairing beginners, I will gulp downthat choking sensation of modesty and,with downcast eyes, admit that I did aspiring to any booby prize, Iwill tell the story of my blundering andof how persistence finally , it will suggest a most de-lightful and profitable trip for others tomake and tell of the ways of an inter-esting and conspicuous bird which iswell worth getting better acquaintedwith. About the last place in the worldwhere one could expect to discover sea-birds would be in a p
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