. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . him out again to estimate the danger. How deliciously absurd it is! thistiny creature with its sparkling eyes and dumpy form. Its tail, too, is turnedup until it leans the other way, and it gives one the impression that the birdwill tumble, forward and nothing to prevent it. When driven from one cover the winter wren instantly seeks another,and spends little time a-wing, except as it flits from branch to branch. It isto be found principally along river bottoms
. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . him out again to estimate the danger. How deliciously absurd it is! thistiny creature with its sparkling eyes and dumpy form. Its tail, too, is turnedup until it leans the other way, and it gives one the impression that the birdwill tumble, forward and nothing to prevent it. When driven from one cover the winter wren instantly seeks another,and spends little time a-wing, except as it flits from branch to branch. It isto be found principally along river bottoms and in ravines under overhangingbanks, and about upturned roots of trees. Some occasionally venture into thebarns and outbuildings of country places, or may spend the winter about thewoodpile. The only note heard commonly is the chitit or chirr of alarm, but the fullsong is sometimes heard in May; and there is just a suspicion that it oc-casionally breeds. Its song is a surprising effort for a bird, so tiny andobscure—a cataract of tinkling, splashing, gurgling sounds, and wanton trills,lasting for seven or eight seconds. 372. 473 WINTER WREN. (Troglodytes hieinalis.) About Life-size. COPVHIGKl 1902, BY A. W MUMFORD, CHICAGO To a Waterfowl By William Cullen Bryant Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of , through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowlers eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee darkly seen against the crimson sky. Thy figure floats along. Seekst thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless desert and illimitable air. Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fannd, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere,Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land. Though the dark night is near. And soon that toil shall en
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