. Bird stories from Burroughs; sketches of bird life taken from the works of John Burroughs .. . tter, and never but onthe tops of the tallest trees, from which it per-petually serenades us with some of the sweetestnotes, and as clear as those of the nightingale. Ihave followed it for miles, without ever but oncegetting a good view of it. It is of the size andmake of the mockingbird, lightly thrush-coloredon the back, and a grayish-white on the breastand belly. Mr. Randolph, my son-in-law, was inpossession of one which had been shot by aneighbor, etc. Randolph pronounced it a fly-catcher, whic
. Bird stories from Burroughs; sketches of bird life taken from the works of John Burroughs .. . tter, and never but onthe tops of the tallest trees, from which it per-petually serenades us with some of the sweetestnotes, and as clear as those of the nightingale. Ihave followed it for miles, without ever but oncegetting a good view of it. It is of the size andmake of the mockingbird, lightly thrush-coloredon the back, and a grayish-white on the breastand belly. Mr. Randolph, my son-in-law, was inpossession of one which had been shot by aneighbor, etc. Randolph pronounced it a fly-catcher, which was a good way wide of the must have seen only the female, afterall his tramp, from his description of the color;but he was doubtless following his own greatthoughts more than the bird, else he would havehad an earlier view. The bird was not a new one,but was well known then as the President put Wilson on the wrong scentby his erroneous description, and it was a longtime before the latter got at the truth of thecase. But Jeffersons letter is a good sample of. CHEWINkupper, male; lower, female THE CHEWINK 41 those ■which specialists often receive from intelli-gent persons who have seen or heard somethingin their line very curious or entirely new, andwho set the man of science agog by a descriptionof the supposed novelty, — a description thatgenerally fits the facts of the case about as wellas your coat fits the chair-back. Strange and cu-rious things in the air, and in the water, and inthe earth beneath, are seen every day except bythose who are looking for them, namely, thenaturalists. When Wilson or Audubon gets hiseye on the unknown bird, the illusion vanishes,and your phenomenon turns out to be one of thecommonplaces of the fields or woods. THE BROWN THEASHER OuE long-tailed thrush, or thrasher, delightsin a high branch of some solitary tree, whence itwill pour out its rich and intricate warble for anhour together. This bird is the great
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