. Birds and nature . his name in thepoem, The Twenty-seventh of March: Within the woodsTufts of ground-laurel, creeping underneathThe leaves of the last summer, send their sweetsUp to the chilly air. Emily Dickinson has a poem entitledMay Flower, of which the first stanzais: Pink, small, and punctual, Aromatic, low, Covert in April, Candid in May. Sarah H. Whitman speaks of the blos-som in these words: The shy little Mayflower weaves her the south wind sighs oer the fragrant betrays the path to the woodland home. Whittier Emily Greene Wetherbee writes of finding it in childho
. Birds and nature . his name in thepoem, The Twenty-seventh of March: Within the woodsTufts of ground-laurel, creeping underneathThe leaves of the last summer, send their sweetsUp to the chilly air. Emily Dickinson has a poem entitledMay Flower, of which the first stanzais: Pink, small, and punctual, Aromatic, low, Covert in April, Candid in May. Sarah H. Whitman speaks of the blos-som in these words: The shy little Mayflower weaves her the south wind sighs oer the fragrant betrays the path to the woodland home. Whittier Emily Greene Wetherbee writes of finding it in childhood: When, in the shaded forest. Or in secluded dell,We sought the fragrant Mayflower, The blossom loved so well. When from the green leaves saw its pink and white. What childish glee and shouts of pure delight! And doubtless many more versesmight be added to this list, but perhapsenough have been quoted to make theArbutus still more dear in the hearts ofits manifold admirers. Edna P. Todd. 164. Pi THE SMITHS LONGSPUR. {Calcarius pictus.) Smiths Longspur, or the PaintedLongspur, as it is frequently called, hasan interesting range which is long andnarrow. It breeds in the western inte-rior of the far north from the Arcticcoast and upper Yukon Valley, south-ward for an undetermined distance. Inthe winter it migrates southward throughthe western portion of the MississippiValley, where it finds feeding groundson the Great Plains and prairies as farsouth as Texas. Its winter visitationsalso extend more or less frequently eastof the Mississippi River, where it maybe found, at times, quite abundant onthe prairies of southern Wisconsin andnorthern Illinois. Unlike its relative, theLapland longspur, wdiich is foundthroughout the northern portion of thenorthern hemisphere, this species isstrictly a bird of America. The habits ofthe two species are very similar, andwhile the adult colors of the males ofthe two species are not alike, those ofthe females resemble each
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