. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . es, and the club moss goes in the same direction by the cart-load for Christmasmarket. In former days there existed grand beech forests which at times w^ere the roostof millions of Passenger Pigeons. Not every year did these birds arrive: in somesuccessive years many were seen, in others their number was few. Often, after anabsence of five or more years, they came again in cloud-like mas
. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . es, and the club moss goes in the same direction by the cart-load for Christmasmarket. In former days there existed grand beech forests which at times w^ere the roostof millions of Passenger Pigeons. Not every year did these birds arrive: in somesuccessive years many were seen, in others their number was few. Often, after anabsence of five or more years, they came again in cloud-like masses, even obscuring thesunlight. Not in thousands, but in untold millions did they come. It was a grand sight,when in the morning the great masses separated into swarms, flying away from theirroosts in all directions, and returning at eve in the same unbroken swarms. Duringseveral seasons they hatched in the forest near my parental home. The nests, of whichlarge numbers often were built in a single tree, were constructed of twigs and alwayscontained each but a single egg. I never have seen two eggs in a nest. How changedseems all now! The romantic time seems to have passed away with the Indians, the XV. 1. DENDROICAAESTIVA Brd. 2. VIREO NOVEBORACENSIS Bonap. 3. ICTERIA VIRENS Brd. 4. VIREO Bonap. 5. SPINUS TRISTIS Stejn. 6. SEIURUS MOTACILLA Bonap. GARTENSANGER BUSCHVIREO SCHWATZER WALDVIREO GOLDSTIGLITZ WASSERSANGER Yellow Water-Thrush. RED-EYED VIREO. 285 forests of white-pines, the Passenger Pigeon, and the early settlers. The pioneer Conrad Krez, who made the forests of central Wisconsin his home over fortyyears ago, truly says in his elegiac lines: All, all about me the world has changed, and I recognize scarcelyNow the haunts where, when young, chasing, I followed the deer. Even the people themselves have changed—changed in their aspect of life, theirway of
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