. Our native songsters . parts pale olive; wing and tail browner; whole underparts, as well as a streak over the eye, brilliant yellow; beak andCeet black. 130 OUR NATIVE SONGSTERS. few places come sounding from the reeds, likea little silver bell, which sends its clear ringingtones far away over the gi-assy meadow; and themeny hmried song of the Marsh Titmouse [Pariispalustris) falls there upon the ear. Here, too, theblack-headed Reed Bunting [Emheriza sclioeniclus)comes in company with many of its fellows, to seekits food and rear its young among the reeds andlong grasses of the
. Our native songsters . parts pale olive; wing and tail browner; whole underparts, as well as a streak over the eye, brilliant yellow; beak andCeet black. 130 OUR NATIVE SONGSTERS. few places come sounding from the reeds, likea little silver bell, which sends its clear ringingtones far away over the gi-assy meadow; and themeny hmried song of the Marsh Titmouse [Pariispalustris) falls there upon the ear. Here, too, theblack-headed Reed Bunting [Emheriza sclioeniclus)comes in company with many of its fellows, to seekits food and rear its young among the reeds andlong grasses of the stream, and sings its song as ifin too gi-eat a hurry to enunciate it fully. It isoften said to be one of our few night singers, butwe cannot claim for it this distinction; and it isprobable that the notes of the sedge warbler, heardduring night from the reeds, have been mistakenfor those of the bunting. But it is no gi*eatsinger at the best of times, and only deserves aslight mention in our enumeration of singing V t V ^^ CHAPTER IV. NIGHTINGALE—BLACKCAP—GARDEN WARBLER WHITE-THROAT LESSER WHITETHROAT. Flowers are blooming and green boughs arewaving, and summer is come. The cuckoosvoice has long been heard over the hills, as anever-failing token of spring, and we were readyto hail it in the words of our oldest Englishballad,— Cuckoo, Cuckoo,Well singest thou cuckoo,Mayest thou never cease. But the sweetest of all om wild singers has comewith the summer to give us a music far richerthan that of the cuckoos unvarying tones. Thebrown Nightingale* [Philomela luscima) is sing-ing now, and the clear loud notes, changing ever ♦ The Nightingale is about six inches and a half in upper parts chestnut-brown; under parts dull greyish-white : beak and feet brown. 132 OUE NATIVE SONGSTERS. as the song proceeds, fill the wood with theirechoes, and are answered repeatedly by kindredvoices in far distant trees. If, the quiet brooklet leaving, Up the stony vale I win
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