. Recent rambles; or, In touch with nature. Natural history. •A Winter Cat-Bird. 19 birches; and a hint of May-days brightened the outlook as pine-finches twittered in the tops of the tall riverside oaks. And then it was a single bird wrought almost a miracle. A cat-bird threaded the tangled maze of underbrush, perched upon a. pebble at the water's edge, intently eyed the frost- bound ripple that it could not reach, flirted its tail impatiently, and uttered its old-time summer plaint, suggestive of many a long-gone August noontide, A moment more and the bird was gone; but how. Please note that
. Recent rambles; or, In touch with nature. Natural history. •A Winter Cat-Bird. 19 birches; and a hint of May-days brightened the outlook as pine-finches twittered in the tops of the tall riverside oaks. And then it was a single bird wrought almost a miracle. A cat-bird threaded the tangled maze of underbrush, perched upon a. pebble at the water's edge, intently eyed the frost- bound ripple that it could not reach, flirted its tail impatiently, and uttered its old-time summer plaint, suggestive of many a long-gone August noontide, A moment more and the bird was gone; but how. 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 Abbott, Charles C. (Charles Conrad), 1843-1919. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company
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