. The birds' calendar . rity, who relates that on en-tering his room one day he was startled to seea quail sitting on his bed, having taken refugethere, as he supposed, in fleeing from a argument loses its edge by the additionalremark, that upon the writers entering theroom the affrighted and bewildered birdinstantly started for the window! A mostunreasonable and ungrateful fowl! The American goldfinch in his summer dressof brilliant yellow, with a black cap and blackwings barred with white, is one of the mostshowy of the finches, and easily mistaken for awarbler. When singing he pref
. The birds' calendar . rity, who relates that on en-tering his room one day he was startled to seea quail sitting on his bed, having taken refugethere, as he supposed, in fleeing from a argument loses its edge by the additionalremark, that upon the writers entering theroom the affrighted and bewildered birdinstantly started for the window! A mostunreasonable and ungrateful fowl! The American goldfinch in his summer dressof brilliant yellow, with a black cap and blackwings barred with white, is one of the mostshowy of the finches, and easily mistaken for awarbler. When singing he prefers the upper-most part of a tree, whence often streams downsuch a voluble, gushing, and incoherent melodythat it seems the outpour of two or three throatsinstead of one. The song is sweet, but formless,like that of the thrasher, and with a deliciouslanguishment that is sometimes rather more fresh and breezy quality sweeps throughthe warble of the European species. A most striking combination of colors was 2l6. AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES July one day afforded in seeing a flock of goldfinchesand indigo-birds running about over the artist would find difficulty in projectingindigo-blue on a congenial green background,but nature hesitates at nothing, and is never atfault as a colorist. The handsomest all-the-year-round bird inthis region is the cardinal grosbeak (one of thefinches), and it has a peculiar and interesting,if not altogether commendable, a refined, courtly, and self-conscious airin bearing and song, it seems to typify a sortof aristocracy that feels the weight of inheritedconsequence, revelling in the deep blessednessof a prolonged and illustrious ancestry. Apersons relation to his ancestors is singular andextremely convenient. It enables him to ap-propriate their virtues and repudiate their vices,and in many instances a large proportion of theirmental and moral assets are thus derived, as wellas their chief claim to recognition in socie
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