. Uccelli utili e la loro protezione. Contenente brevi descrizioni delle specie più comuni e utili del Massachusetts, con i resoconti delle loro abitudini alimentari, e un capitolo sui mezzi per attrarre e proteggere gli uccelli . e ombre giù il dorso di Muddy Pond Hill, dove la coda di cotone rabbitted via davanti a me, Dove il Partridge scoppiò un volo intotunderous in mezzo ad un vortice di foglie sparse, andtratteggiato via attraverso torsioni pieganti e rami ondeggianti, ogni vista e suono si impressionò vividamente sulla mente miouthful, ma nessuno ha reso un'impressionionepiù durevole del canto del forno-uccello. Da a.

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. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . e shadows down theback of Muddy Pond Hill, where the cotton-tail rabbitbounded away before me, where the Partridge burst intothunderous flight amid a whirl of scattered leaves, anddashed away through bending twigs and swaying branches, every sight and sound impressed itself vividly upon myyouthful mind, but none made a more lasting impressionthan the song of the Oven-bird. To me the bird thenseemed to say chick, kerchick, KERCHICK, repeatingits single phrase an indefinite number of times, while thesilent woods, acting as a sounding board, rang and rever-berated with the crescendo strain. Later, when 1 lingeredin the woods at evening until the stars came out and the SONG BIRDS OF ORCHARD AND WOODLAND. 189 bats were flying (for my days were spent at school, andthere was no time but morning and evening in which toreally live), I heard a burst of melody far above the treetops, and saw the little singer rising against the glow in thewestern sky, simulating the Skylark, and pouring forth its. Fig. 62. — Oven-bird and nest. melody, not to the orb of day but to the slowly rising moon ;then, when the melody came nearer, as the exhausted* singerfell from out the sky and shot swiftly downward, alightingat my very feet, I saw in the dim light that the author ofthis soaring vesper song was my little common, every-dayfriend, the Oven-bird. Night after night I listened to its•flight song above the wooded hills of Worcester, where itis one of the usual sounds of evening. Years afterward, John Burroughs, the dean of nature writers, described itsevensong, and people seemed to marvel as if it were a new 190 USEFUL BIRDS. discovery. It seemed to me impossible that any one whoever went out into the woods at evening should have missedhearing this characteristic song.

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