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Show MkM BEAUTIFUL BIRDS SEEN! sn & a a a EIGHTEEN SPECIES DESCRIBED ROCKY MOUNTAIN JAY AND LONG-CRESTED JAY. ; V . , , : I r. ;' V, v " rv H V0 Professor Paul of the U. of U. Tells of Enjoyable Stroll. By PROFESSOR J. H. PAUL. FRIDAY, with ooo of my classes from the University of Utah, a walk through Mt. Olivet cemetery ceme-tery and on to the rear of Fort T'ouglaB reward nil richly our braving of the storm which met us upon our return. re-turn. First to be seen was the bluebird, wheeling iti aerial jraee from treetop to earth to pick up His food, and singing his l'aiut, smooth, "Pure, pure," while talking avriy to his silky-gray mate of the hiufiehs tho future has in store for Wirjjftr Bluebirds havo beeu with us for L-eral weeks and tho sight of tho deep, iXh azuro of the male, as he glides or poses before you, and the quic?VL beauty of tho femalo, ns she; joins rhese exquisite evolutions, can-' not fail ire one a thrill of joy and to renew some of the almost forgotten impulses of youth. As for meadowlarks, the entire hillside hill-side was resounding with their vibrant flutes and piccolos. For they imitate both those instruments, and there is no ; monotony in their loud and ringing calls. Tint one must listen closely and count the number of different songs in their abounding repertoire. They are among our finest singers. They compass many octaves with a brilliance and pow- , cr not equalled by other bird musicians; while they also sing on the wing, whis- i tie a long flute note and a strong, dear trill, and occasionally later in tho sea- ! son sing a long-drawn-out. tremulous, twittering, thrush-like melody an expression, ex-pression, I doubt not, of their supremest Wis. House Finches Seen. Among the trees the house finches were singing with all their might at their delightful and melodious compositions. composi-tions. Cheerfulness bubbles all over from the happy and whole-souled greeting greet-ing they give. Their silvery notes rival in beauty those of the canary, but have more of the swing of the open about them. The big woodpeckers red-shafted flickers were much in evidence from their boisterous courtship, their loud cries of "Piute" and " if-if-if-if ( M and their droll drumming upon a hollow tree trunk. And then a ruby-crowned king darted like a tiny gleam of green light from tree to tree and, displaying his dainty red crown as we turned our opera glasses upon him. Soon his jolly bell-like bell-like notes mag out for one group of the party, as he went his way to the limits of the grove singing, "Zeek, zeek, zeek, cholly, cholly, choily, cholly, cholly, pur-tie, pur-tie, purtie, purt.ii), " his wonderful flute rising high at the close, as if demanding if it were not so. "We marvel that such a volume of music mu-sic comes from the tiny throat of a bird not half the ei.e of a sparrow. Far overhead over-head we observe the bounding, wayward flight of the pine siskins and gold finches, who settled in the tree tops and entertained us with their tinkling, canary notes and endless calls of "sweet, swee-ct.' Juncos, or snowbirds, dart about in companies, displaying the white outer tail feathers bv which we know them at a distance. Lisping and twittering out their little concert of f'hine?e fiddling, they flit from tree to tree or run along the ground picking up seeds. Wax wings Beautiful. "See the birds with crests," calls out some one. Wo all look to the top of a tall spruce and there are perched half a dozen wnxwings, most beautiful to behold be-hold in their faultless attire of smoothest smooth-est velvet in maroou and brown, with red and vcllow sashes on their wings. For awhile they lisp sociably and trill for ns, then fly away. We roam over the hill to find the horned lark and ves-pejr ves-pejr sparrow alike running over the round or flying low; the arctic towhee perching in the oakbrush; the magpies and long-crested jays flying off at our approach; a red-tailed hawk leisurely standing on the ground or flying with slow strokes; blackbirds flying m distant dis-tant flocks, and numerous robins, of course, in the trees of the fort, while several of the party encountered the song sparrow in the brush along the snow-filled gully. Seventeen species of birds, "besides the house sparrow, found in the course of a two-hour stroll, on this wintry 30th day of March seventeen different kinds of cheerfulness ;ind beauty, besides fresh air, fine scenery and a good appetite, all picked up in the brief outing from 7:30 to fl : 3t. Can anv moving picture show give anything like as much for our time? Would it not be well, in these anxious days while war clouds lowerj to compose our minds and clarify ( our vision vi-sion by such walks into the opehf |