. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Western Mockingbird One cannot swear that this Mocker's music improves at midnight, but some of his tenderer offerings are at least more acceptable when dis- played against a background of silence. What more touching than the devotion of this midnight minstrel! His heart is hot, and life—Oh, life is short—Dum vivimns vivamus. Let boobies slumber, and let churls berate us—we will celebrate the hours of love. Truth to tell, the midnight eloquence
. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Western Mockingbird One cannot swear that this Mocker's music improves at midnight, but some of his tenderer offerings are at least more acceptable when dis- played against a background of silence. What more touching than the devotion of this midnight minstrel! His heart is hot, and life—Oh, life is short—Dum vivimns vivamus. Let boobies slumber, and let churls berate us—we will celebrate the hours of love. Truth to tell, the midnight eloquence of the Mock- ingbird becomes at times a severe test of loyalty. For the spring of 1918 "Old Faithful" elected a station on the cornice just eight feet from the author's slumbering ear. "Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast"; but, ahem! it hath also potencies calculated to awaken the less savage. By the time Opus 16, Fugue in A Minor, is reached, viz., at about 2 a. m., one humbly wonders whether Song and an early breakfast are com- patible joys. Pasadena is called the City of Roses. It ought, rather, to be called the City of Mockingbirds. Those who have contrived that heaven on earth have not neglected to people it with these indefatigable angels; or perhaps the birds have set the seal of their approval upon it by forsaking the minor paradises of the surrounding deserts and nocking to the major Valhalla. Anyhow, if your nerves trouble you at the midnight hour, avoid Pasadena. No; the police will not shoot that Mockingbird in order to assuage your petulant (and even pluto-. Taken at Los Colibris INCREDULOUS Photo by the A uthor 723. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Dawson, William Leon, 1873-1928; Dickey, Donald R. (Donald Ryder), 1887-1932; Pierce, Wright M;
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